Credibility is one of the greatest challenges for leaders. Why should people believe what we say or do what we tell them? It matters not what our vision is if we cannot convince people of the need to go to that place. Our long range goals and most elaborate plans are meaningless if we cannot convince people to embrace them. Spiritual leaders move people on to God’s agenda. Yet one of the greatest frustrations for leaders is being unable to move people from where they are to where God wants them to be.
God may lead us to undertake tasks that seem far beyond our leadership ability. We tend to gravitate toward assignments we feel capable of accomplishing with our own skills and experience. But when we succeed in such undertakings, we are the ones who receive the glory. God is not concerned with magnifying our name, but His. When God invites us to join in His activity, we will inevitably feel inadequate for the undertaking. God tends to position us into situations where our inadequacy is magnified so we find ourselves dependent upon Him.
Not everything God leads us to do will necessarily make sense to us. It might seem ludicrous to attempt something we are woefully inexperienced at doing. It may seem foolhardy to try something when we don’t know where the money or manpower will come from. Some people have become consumed with worry as they over-analyzed and fretted about how to accomplish what God told them to do. Our responsibility is to accept God’s assignment and trust that, in giving us the task, He will also make the provision. We don’t need to devote ourselves to figuring out how to accomplish God’s will. That is His responsibility! Instead of becoming paralyzed by fear and worry at what God asked us to do, we must seize the opportunity to join God in His work and to see God use our ordinary life to accomplish something extraordinary.