Spirit of Leadership

THE SPIRIT OF LEADERSHIP just as the soil never kills a plant or the water never kills a fish when they are separated from their source, it is not the Creator who does the killing. He doesn’t have to. Death is a result, not an imposition. God’s statement, “You will surely die,” is just the announcement of a result, not a threat. He didn’t say, “The day you do this, I will kill you.” He said, “You will surely die.” If you pull a plant out of the soil, you don’t need to kill it. It will wither on its own. If you take a fish out of water, you don’t need to kill it. It will suffocate and die. Likewise, if a man takes himself out of connection with God, you don’t need to impose destruction on him. He dies spiritually, and it’s only a matter of time before he dies physically. The Creator brought life, not death, into the world. He doesn’t impose death on anything in his creation. Death is a result of rebellion against the natural laws established by the Source. These laws are in alignment with the nature and character of the Source and are for the optimum well-being of his offspring. Life is in the Source. Whoever stays attached to the Source will have life, just as a plant or a fish stays alive in its source. The spirit of leadership is a natural derivative of the leadership spirit; it is the state of mind or attitude that emanates from it. Yet if we are cut off from the Source of that leadership spirit—when his Spirit has departed from our lives—we are also cut off from the attitude and power that should flow from our leadership nature. We end up distorting our leadership instead of reflecting it in the light of our Source.

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