WORD 2day: Monday, 24th week in Ordinary time
The Word today touches upon a crucial point for our times - who is a true leader and what we need to do towards having true leaders?
Let us look at the leaders today - one who threatens all those who are around inviting them to prove their might, one who is busy proving himself the most powerful, one who is busy promoting one's hidden agenda come what may, the ones who are more worried about their purses and positions than about those whom they intend to lead, the ones who are busy making noise without really substantialising their inner potency, the ones who have no stand on their own but try to capitalise on others' weaknesses and necessities - are these the kind of leaders we need? Or the kind of leader that the centurion proved to be in the Gospel account of today?
If we need to have good leaders as such, we have three tasks to take care of: firstly, pray for our leaders, those who are governing and those in the making; secondly, promote such leaders, instead of losing them in time and space not leaving the good ones lurching; and thirdly, become ourselves the type of leaders that we wish to see.
Making of true Christian leaders lies in these qualities: wishing the good of the other - that is love; interceding for the those in need - that is faith; and looking forward to the good and the best from the Lord - that is hope. We entrust the leadership today into the hands of the Lord.
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