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LEADERSHIP BY LOVE

Text: 1 John 3:16 

By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

Yesterday we looked at how a man can come into leadership by taking responsibility. Today, we shall be looking at how you can assume leadership position by simply walking in love towards the brethren or even those outside the church.

Jesus Christ our Lord became the author of salvation because He laid down His life for us. He has therefore become the captain of GOD our salvation.For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.(Hebrews 2:10).

Jesus Christ loved us and He laid down His life for us, He is now laying a demand on you to do same- lay down your life for the brethren. 

By walking in love towards the brethren and your neighbor, you automatically receive the grace to be able to lead people towards God.

We shall be considering the life of Joseph on how he was able to lead the whole household of Jacob by simply showing unconditionald love and unparallel forgiveness towards his evil brethren. 

Having sold Joseph into slavery, his brethren met before with him in Egypt while scavenging for food. The  famine which the Lord showed to Pharaoh had already began to ravage the world, and Jacob had asked Joseph's brethren to go to Egypt for corn.

When Jacob revealed himself to his brothers, he said to them, "...do not therefore be grieved or angry with yourselves because you sold me here; for God sent me before you to preserve life. And _God sent me before you to preserve a posterity for you in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance_ So now it was not you who sent me here, but God; and He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.(Genesis 45:5-8).

Joseph preserved the posterity of Jacob through love. He led them out of extinction simply by walking in love. He pardoned the grievous sin of his brethren and by that, he delivered the whole generation of Israel.

When you chose to lay down your life for the brethren just as Jesus did, you may also be leading a whole generation into God's promise land.

Sure, Jacob and his children were dwelling in Canaan as strangers as at the time of the famine, but if Joseph had not led them out of Canaan, they would  never have lived to see the fulfillment of God's promise to Abraham.

As you daily walk in love, you need to know that you are a leader. And you are simply leading people out of death. 

It was Joseph's love and not just his position (as second in command to Pharaoh( that made him lead his whole family and their future generation out of extinction by famine.

Whether you are occupying a position or not, loving people automatically makes you a genuine and better leader than anyone occupying a position but not walking in love.

 *Bible Reading:*

Genesis 45: 1-11.

 *PRAYER FOCUS.* 

Father Lord help me to always take responsibility for all that you have committed into my hands.

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