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Writer's pictureDavid Lutes

24 - THE HEART TEST

1 Thessalonians 2v4b


4 On the contrary, we speak as those approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel. We are not trying to please people but God, who tests our hearts. 


To lead and direct as God-approved managers and leaders we need to test our own hearts, examine our motives, then act in faith knowing that God is greater than our hearts and knows all things (including what’s around the corner). And knowing the truth that God knows that, down the road, we’re going to fail sometimes – good motives or not – and that He has still set His love on us, is astounding!


We may not seek or need approval from men but in this day and age when people are crying out for and seeking honorable men and women who practice what they preach - and who live, serve and lead professionally, authentically, and excellently, we might be surprised how much and how often people around us will look to us for more of the Good News that we live out before them.


Life and business tests will come; not ‘traps’, not ‘tricks’ just to teach us lessons. But opportunities to perhaps go against the stream of opinion, to resist the status quo of selfishness or a bottom-line-improvement-at-all-costs-obsession - and choose a better way, an alternative to the World system – these opportunities will be abundant.


He will test our hearts because He knows what He has invested in us and that because He has found a willing and available vessel placed at His disposal, He will complete the work that He has started in us. His grace will be there to rise above the storm and to integrity-surf the waves crashing around us - that's His specialty.


PRAYER ACTION

Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me and lead me in the way everlasting. (Psalm 139)

"The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly."

(Jim Rohn)


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