In our last post I challenged you to examine your 3 core beliefs. These beliefs become that 6th sense to how we react to decisions before we really have time to ponder them. I don’t know about you but sometimes I have a question asked of me and I have an immediate response before I have thought it completely through.
Where do these responses come from? They will be actions I feel very strongly about. As soon as I hear the question or the statement I am reacting with boldness and conviction. I find this happens more when I am talking to somebody about the things of God. Statements have been made and I hear myself saying “You are wrong, I don’t believe that.” Or “I am sorry but that is not in the bible.” I stand back and think to myself as I hear my voice saying these things, “Where is this coming from?”
These reactions are coming through our preconceived lenses that we are viewing the world with. We make decisions in our personal life, in our social life, in our professional life and in our spiritual life based on preconceived filters. Therefore it becomes imperative that we examine those filters and make sure they are sound and that they are Godly. You don’t want to be reacting from a 6th sense leadership lens that is ungodly and unbiblical.
In examining my top 3 core beliefs I have discovered that the first one for me is…
1: God’s written word has principles and structure that will bring solution to anything that any human could find themselves facing.
This is something I believe deep inside of me. I find it funny that as time goes on psychologists, sociologist and scientist are discovering truths about humans and the environment we live in, that the word of God has been telling for thousands of years. Today people are discovering “truths” about life that the word of God has been putting forth for a very long time.
I remember once hearing a debt counsellor on a very humanistic, secular talk show giving her super-duper get out of debt plan. She was talking about a percent of your money going in to this area and a percent of your money going into this other area. Then she said “I don’t know why this works, but you need to give 10% of your income to a charity.” She went on to cite several real life situations of individual that did this and how it changed their thinking on money and debt.
I was listening and almost fell off my chair. Look what Malachi says:
Mal 3:8-9
(8) You people are robbing me, your God. And, here you are, asking, “How are we robbing you?” You are robbing me of the offerings and of the ten percent that belongs to me.
(9) That’s why your whole nation is under a curse.
Israel was cursed because they didn’t pay a 10th of their income to God. Kind of sounds like what this humanistic debt counsellor was saying.
There is a word that is forever settled in heaven.
(Psa 119:89) Forever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.
When I come up against an idea or a thought that goes against the word of God then I am setting myself up for failure, as a leader of my home, my church, and my own life. It doesn’t matter in what arena you are living, God’s word is there to give direction.
This is my first and strongest belief as a leader and the first lens to my core beliefs as an individual.
Keep looking up. God has a purpose for you!
PJ
