A woman was driving home one night. Rain was coming down in buckets and visibility was poor. Seeing taillights ahead of her, she followed the car in front. All of a sudden the lead car came to a stop. “Perhaps a deer had been hit” the woman thought. She began to panic thinking it could be dangerous being stopped in the middle of the road in poor weather. The man in the first car got out, walked back to her in the pouring rain, and knocked on her window. She cracked the window open and asked the man what the problem was. “That’s my question to you” he said, “why did you follow me into my driveway?”
While the whole world urges us to rise up and be a leader, to be independent ~ be the one to machete your way through the jungle of life, be a man of strength, a strong woman, a confident path-setting teen, the entire response to the Bible can be summarized in two simple words. Jesus says, “Follow Me.”
Leadership is an important topic, but the truth ~ the depth of life is defined more by what and who you choose to follow. Everyone follows something. The woman in the car on the rainy night was kept safe by following closely the car in front of her, but she was taken in the wrong direction. One of my dream books to write someday has the working title of “Followership.” Carefully hoosing who to follow and how to be a good follower.
While the whole world urges us to rise up and be a leader, to be independent ~ be the one to machete your way through the jungle of life, be a man of strength, a strong woman, a confident path-setting teen, the entire response to the Bible can be summarized in two simple words. Jesus says, “Follow Me.”
Leadership is an important topic, but the truth ~ the depth of life is defined more by what and who you choose to follow. Everyone follows something. The woman in the car on the rainy night was kept safe by following closely the car in front of her, but she was taken in the wrong direction. One of my dream books to write someday has the working title of “Followership.” Carefully hoosing who to follow and how to be a good follower.
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