I will make you fishers of men

Mat 4:19 And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

Good evening dear friends, I have found myself traveling again so I must post later in the day when this occurs. I am on the road headed for Ohio, and a business meeting. The purpose of this meeting is for training in the upper management so that we may continue to be a leader in our line of business. Well for homework they have assigned us to read a book called "From Good To Great". Now the whole purpose of this book is to encourage companies to look at their management and find those few things that would make a difference in their leadership to take them from good to great. I chose this verse today because it started here in my mind at the model for training leaders. What a simple bunch of folk, I mean they were just regular labourers, they didn't even have a certificate from a two year college? Now when I read my Bible I found 12 ordinary men that God used and they were no doubt "good" at what they do otherwise they would have never been in that business. Now I am no major analyst, or writer, or super scholar, but friend I watched a great leader Jesus Christ take them from "good to great". You say hows this brother, well I say pick up your Bibles and watch the transformation. You see I enjoy these little jaunts into the corporate world and love to laugh at how much we think we have this all figured out for our companies and lives. There is fact after fact that in order to be a good leader the disciples had to learn to follow first. Whew, you mean that there's no person "born" into greatness? No, I believe that there are those that have a flair about them that would enable them to gather people together, however that is not what Christ was. Jesus simply said "Follow Me and I will make you fishers of men." You see friend the Lord had to make them fishers of men. Now I can sit here and try to mix the secular world with the spiritual, but I will leave that up to the writers and the scholars. What I want in my life is to remain humble that I may as stated in 2Ti 3:14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; You see the success of myself, and my company lays in the hand of the Lord Jesus Christ, and for that very reason I know that if I continue to honor God, He will in no doubt bless us. If I stay humbled, then I can learn to lead, and when the need is there for me to lead then the Lord will place me into that need considering that I have already learned what I needed up to that point from the Lord. Now don't get me wrong dear friend there is much to learn from reading this book, however I place more value on Jesus and His teachings rather than another author. I mean think about this dear reader, God has allowed His Word to endure forever, and in that time He has raised up leaders, and took them from good to great within His own will. The Christian heritage that I have has survived for more than two thousand years, now what a model of models to look at to see how things should be done if we want our lives to prosper. First and foremost I believe that this one single thing applies as the base of this model in order for it to grow...the foundation if you would have to be Jesus. From there my friend as I hear a lot say, I am just a pilgrim on a journey, and praise God I know where it ends! Take heed on what type of foundation that you build thereupon as Mat 16:26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Until tomorrow may God bless.