One of the greatest attributes for leadership is authenticity. Others are awareness and observation. Without awareness and observation, we miss opportunities even when they’re glaring. Let’s take a case study.
He was on Horeb, and saw a burning bush. The bush was on fire but it did not burn up. So he thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.”
First, his attention was needed for a very important message. He needed to be consumed by something uncommon. Secondly, his bravery was tested: he went over instead of running away when he saw the burning bush. Then, his God called him “Moses! Moses!” and revealed a mission.
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Simply, the burning bush was to get his attention, and that was critical before a big message was to be revealed. In your career, when you see that “burning bush”, did the “burning bush” even get your attention? And if it does, what do you do? Do you run away?
Some people run away while others take the challenges. Yes, take those huge tasks to save that company. Usually, in the middle of that challenge, glory will come. For Moses, it was to lead his brethren; in business, you could be the next CEO, GM, ED, etc!
What is the “burning bush” before you in that company? Without awareness and observation, you may not even know the company is asking for your attention to be called to #LEAD. Until you can see, and approach the “burning bush”, that career ascension may not come.
As we say in the Scripture Union, the next praise will be better because more songs will be discovered, open your eyes to see that professional “burning bush”, and position to lead. Happy Sunday from a nice resort somewhere in America with family.
7 The Lord said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. 8 So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. 9 And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. 10 So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.”
11 But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”
12 And God said, “I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you[b] will worship God on this mountain.”
13 Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?”
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