A Bonus Leadership Challenge

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Proverbs 21:8  (The Message)  “Mixed motives twist life into tangles; pure motives take you straight down the road.”

8.  The Motives of a Leader.

I love that Proverbs comes back to the motives issue again just a few verses after talking about it in verse 2.  Because a leader’s motives are just that important.

This verse reveals that when our motives are twisted, our life gets tangled up.  Ever experienced that?  Ever found things getting complicated around you and when you started to sort it all out, it was simply because you had let a bad motive get in the mix?  If you’re married, then you most definitely know what I mean! ☺

If we want our leadership to go “down a straight road” then the only way to do that is by keeping our motives pure.  When our hidden agenda is about self-promotion and not the good of others, the path will be crooked.  We must check our motives everyday as we make decisions that effect the lives of so many God has entrusted us to influence.

? What decision have you made in the last week that was motivated by wrong or impure motives?  I bet you there is at least one.  Think about it for a minute, you’ll find one.

Just a Leadership Bloggish thought,

Matt