I was reading the book Leadership 101 by John Maxwell, and though some thoughts I had are not directly mentioned in the book, I thought I'd share them with you.

John Maxwell in one part of the book talks about planned neglect. The basic idea is that one has a limited amount of time so if he spends all his time cleaning his store but forgets to open the door, he misses the point of why he is there, which is to bring customers into his store. I was thinking about priorities and how do we know what is important. I realized something I think we should keep in mind and that is that we should evaluate our time not on the worldly definition of spending our time, but rather evaluate our time on what God calls us to do and be sensitive to the Holy Spirit. Further, we should not evaluate things on the basis of how they affect us visibly but rather on how we are being led. For example, if someone I barely knows asks me for some advice, it seems like a fruitless thing to spend time talking to that person. I cannot see the results of my talking to that person and the only way it affects me is that I use up some time.

Yet look at the example of the small white haired man on George Street, he did not see the results of his labor until just a short time before his death. For those that don't know, he handed out 10 tracts every day and never saw any result from this until a baptist pastor visited him and explained how many testimonies of very influential leaders that had changed their life for good and the tract the white haired man had handed out was an instrument in that process. This little man was used to be a huge influence but he didn't see it first hand.

Or another example, Jesus did only the will of His Father in Heaven. In the same way, we follow Him in that regard and do what we saw Him doing. I don't know if I was able to communicate the thought that I have in my mind. In any case, I hope it sparks something valuable in your mind. God bless,