The Servant Leader

During training exercises, the lieutenant driving down a muddy back road encountered another car stuck in the mud with a red faced colonel at the wheel. "Is your jeep stuck, sir?" asked the lieutenant as he pulled alongside. "Nope," replied the colonel, coming over and handing him the keys, "but yours is."
We live in a world in which leaders, politicians, along anyone else who has power expects others to serve them. But when it comes to Jesus, He has done the opposite; Jesus has come into our lives saying “allow me to serve you”. Jesus demonstrated that the greatest leadership model is that of the servant leader who puts others ahead of self. In doing so, Jesus was able communicate both in word and in action the message that He cares for all people. That is why people listened to Him when He spoke or why they followed Him when He traveled. We all have someone to lead; it could be our children, our peers, or even a large company; whoever it is, allow the Jesus model of leadership to be your guide as you lead.

“5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; 7 rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross!” Philippians 2:5-8 NIV