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Greetings,
Today I want to address another attribute that is essential for every leader to appropriate in their lives. That attribute is one of flexibility. What do I mean by flexibility? Life is never a straight line from one place to another. It is filled with beginnings and endings, with a process of adjustments between those two points. That process between those two points is filled with decisions that must be made as adjustments in the course of your path. Some adjustments are small, and some adjustments are big, but adjustments in the journey don’t change the direction of the journey. They simply define the detains of fulfilling the journey.
2 Timothy 4:2 Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season.
Paul’s words to Timothy were true for his course of destiny and these words are also true for us today. We must be ready to stay the course of life in what we know to be the season of our life and we must stay true to the course of life when we have to adjust to what doesn’t appear to be true to the present season of our lives.
Adjustments in the path don’t change the path. They often define our faith in the path. Do we walk by sight, or do we walk by faith? Faith is a matter of relationship with God. Faith is the result of hearing God in our hearts. When we face adjustments in or path of destiny, we must draw close to the God to hear His voice for the decisions of each day. We don’t just hear His voice to know what to do. We hear His voice to know Him in the midst of our adjusted path. Faith invokes actions on or part, but those actions are not reactions to the things that seem to alter our path. Those actions are simply needed actions to accommodate what God says must be done, or what we discern God to say, in this day.
Some adjustments look like closed doors in the path and other adjustments look like open doors with new pathways to fulfilling the journey. We must keep our eyes on the goal set before us and we must keep our hearts open for the instructions of each day. We don’t always hear God for new instructions when faced with adjustments in our path, but no new instructions are simply a confirmation that the instructions given yesterday are enough for us to maneuver any needed changes for today.
When God commissions us to be and do something, we can expect to experience resistance to our path of destiny. We can expect to adjust in some things simply because we don’t fully understand the purpose and the outcome of each day in our journey. The apostle Paul thought to go to Spain but the path before Him was really a path to minister the life of Christ and path of life concerned Macedonia fulfilling a need in Jerusalem.
Romans 15:22 For this reason I also have been much hindered from coming to you. 23 But now no longer having a place in these parts, and having a great desire these many years to come to you, 24 whenever I journey to Spain, I shall come to you. For I hope to see you on my journey, and to be helped on my way there by you, if first I may enjoy your company for a while. 25 But now I am going to Jerusalem to minister to the saints. 26 For it pleased those from Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints who are in Jerusalem.
As leaders we must be flexible in our path of destiny. We must model that flexibility to those we lead and inspire them to remain true to their course in every season of their lives. Faith is the key ingredient to being flexible and faith always works through love. Love does whatever is necessary in the journey between every beginning and end. The process of every journey of destiny is one of a relationship of love for God and others and love can empower us to make any necessary adjustments in our path.
Food For Thought,
Ted J. Hanson
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