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Restless

The world is at your fingers tips.
Keeping juggling.
I stumbled across another article that talks about some of the elements of leadership. 

One of the things the article mentioned about spiritual leaders (I'm referring to anyone who brings people to Christ) is that they're restless. Boy oh boy can I can identify. The article said the following:

"Spiritual leaders have a holy discontentment with the status quo. Non-leaders have inertia that causes them to settle in and makes them very hard to move off of dead center. Leaders have a hankering to change, to move, to reach out, to grow, and to take a group or an institution to new dimensions of ministry." 

How many of you can relate? From a young age I knew I was a leader. I just always acted like a manager and a girl who liked to help people in some way. I remember at about 10 years old, always being the teacher leading my brother and sister during the class in our makeshift bedroom classroom. I would give assignments, tell them my expectations, and get very impatient when they didn't turn in their homework (yes I gave homework). I don't know if I just always acted like a leader and my mother treated me as such or if my mother treated me like a leader and I felt comfortable with the role. Probably a combination of the two. 

 Nevertheless, leadership is obvious in some people. Anyone and everyone can and should be a leader though -- everyone can bring others to Christ in the ways the Lord gave them. So, we must continue to push through in order to be effective in the land.

"I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus" (Philippians 3:14).

So, to all the leaders and future leaders, are you restless in the name of the Lord? If you are, that's fantastic and He is well pleased with you. 
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Article reference: 
http://www.desiringgod.org/articles/the-marks-of-a-spiritual-leader

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