Leaders reflect on the things they see around them
A true leader is a deep thinker!
He considers the happenings around him. As you consider the things around you, you will receive wisdom. That wisdom will help you to be a better leader.
I remember the story of a man who went into a store to buy some brains. This unfortunate story tells us how important it is to use the brains God has given us. No matter how spiritual you are,
God still expects you to use your brains. A great leader is someone who contemplates, reflects, ponders and deliberates over issues.
The Brain Seller
There were four different brains on sale. The salesperson was on hand to help the customer.
The customer said, “I would like to buy the best brains you have.”
The salesperson showed the customer what he had in store.
He said, “These are the brains from a nation that invented airplanes, rockets and satellites.”
He continued, “These next ones are from a nation that invented televisions, videos, telephones, radios and stereo systems.”
He went on, “This third set of brains comes from a nation that has developed beautiful cities, roads, bridges, trains, airports, tunnels, etc.”
He then showed the fourth set of brains. He continued, “This last set of brains are from a nation which has invented nothing and built nothing for itself.
“I see,” he said, “How much are they anyway?”
The salesman replied, “The first three brains are affordable, but the fourth set of brains is very expensive.”
“Why is that? Why should they be so expensive when they have not been used to accomplish anything?”
“Oh, that is simple,” the salesman replied, “Those brains are fresh, unused and full of potential. Because they have not been used for anything, all the potential is still within.”
Thinking is a God-given privilege to have the large brains we have. Did you know that human beings have the largest and most developed brains of all creation? Think about the size of a bird’s head and how small their brains must be.
Every great leader uses this gift – his brains! There are questions you must ask! There are things that must occur to you! Let us ruminate about Solomon’s thoughts and observations.
So I returned and CONSIDERED all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter, and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit. The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
Better is a handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit. Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.
There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail. Ecclesiastes 4:1-8
When I APPLIED MINE HEART TO KNOW WISDOM and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:) Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea farther; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it. Ecclesiastes 8:16,17
For all this I CONSIDERED IN MY HEART even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them. Ecclesiastes 9:1
King Solomon wrote the Scriptures above. You will notice the phrase “and I considered”. You will also notice the phrase “I applied my heart to wisdom”.
Do you consider yourself to be a real leader? It is time to start turning things over in your mind. Think about what makes others victorious.
May God help us to ponder over many issues and receive revelation!
These can become the basis for innovations and new inventions.