Symphony of Your Heart
No
matter who you are or what you're doing, you are following something.
You may be the greatest leader of a massive cooperation but you are
still following something. You are following the inclinations of your
heart, the deep seeded passion of your inmost being. Those
passions will either be a foundation to build people up around you,
or used to tear people down as a foundation to elevate yourself.
Consequently as a leader you are acting out on your passions and when
you actively step forward in this world with a vision, you will be
affecting others around you. Therefore, leadership is influence.
Where
does leadership go askew? How do we learn to give up our selfish
passions of self promotion and lead with selfless love? We must go
to the Composer of love, the One who created passion, the One who
wrote individual symphonies (passions) in each of our hearts. As the
song Virtuoso says we were:
“A
handful of dust a worthless piece of clay
And You breathed the breath of heaven
Then there was a soul
The heart, the hands, the voice that could sing of Your perfection
Life is a symphony that only You can play
You know I can hear it through the madness everyday”
And You breathed the breath of heaven
Then there was a soul
The heart, the hands, the voice that could sing of Your perfection
Life is a symphony that only You can play
You know I can hear it through the madness everyday”
We
were made in His image and only through sitting at His feet will we
know how to bear His image in this world. In His presence we learn
the deep never ending beauty of His mysterious character and
how only He can empower us to have His heart for people. Only
He can restore the symphony of our heart that we have tried to play,
renewing our perspective on life through giving us His
mind. When the wild beauty of the symphony is unlocked we try to
suppress it, sometimes it hurts to let others hear the song of your
heart. Yet He is faithful to give us the courage,
reminding us that it was never our symphony in the first place . . .
we only must faithfully place our hands in
His. We walk boldly forward knowing that we've been graced with favor
in His sight and watch in wonder as His habits
become ours.
We look back through the
history of life and see inspiring examples of true leaders who have
given their symphonies back to the Composer. We look forward to His
kingdom where one day the symphonies of life will come together to
praise the Virtuoso Creator with one mighty crescendo.
“A timeless melody of
beauty and emotion
Perfect harmony inspiring true devotion
No one else can play its chords so graceful yet so strong
You made the instrument and wrote the song”
Perfect harmony inspiring true devotion
No one else can play its chords so graceful yet so strong
You made the instrument and wrote the song”
2
Corinthians 8:3-5
For
I bear witness that according to their ability, yes, and
beyond their ability they were freely willing.
Imploring us with much urgency that we would receive the gift and the
fellowship of the ministering to the saints. And not only as
we had hoped, but they first gave themselves to the Lord, and
then to us by the will of God.
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