Year 9, Day 180: Matthew 6

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Jesus continues to speak to us about perspective.  The godly leader can lead with a different perspective because the leader knows where true treasure resides.  The godly leader can lead because he is confident that his reward is in God’s hands.

Jesus gives us several examples of this in today’s reading.  For example, many people help the poor.  Many of those people do it so they can add it to their resume, giving them reason to brag about what they do.  They may also do it to try and prove their own righteousness to themselves.  The true leader is willing to work without reward because they know that their reward is with God and God will remember.

Another example is prayer.  We can likely extend this to worship leadership in general.   Many people pray to hear the complement about how great the prayer was.  People lead singing in order to hear how excellent their ability is.  The true leader leads because it needs to be done and because God will see it and God will remember.

There are plenty of applications of this policy in our own lives.  Every moment of leadership is an area where this can be applied.  The godly leader does what needs to be done – what is right for the community around them – and places their trust in God’s approval, not the approval of the people around them.

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