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June 28. Are You Yelling, Selling Or Being Compelling?
Deciding with you mind, heart or both makes a difference.
Do you use logic or your heart to make decisions? The answer is that we use both. But I think that what compels us as leaders is not the logic of a decision, but it is the heart. When we think about the combination of our why and our value proposition, we often find passion.
Passion seems to be a matter of the heart to me. The logic of our value propositions is certainly important, but the logical thoughts and steps we take are not necessarily compelling until the heart is involved. When the heart is not involved with our team, we might find ourselves selling them.
If frustration settles in an area where the heart is not involved, then yelling might occur. Where has your heart not been as involved with your world and decisions as you might have wished it to be in the last thirty days? It could be that your logic has been getting in the way of your heart.
Being a leader sometimes means that we must do an inventory of our heart. When we find that the inventory there is low or depleted, we need to address it. As leaders, we also can accept the responsibility to help others inventory their hearts. If it is in their heart then it is their issue to solve, not ours.
But a leader of leaders helps others to fill up that space which can benefit on an exponential level. What is the first thing that you can do about it in the next seven days?
As brothers and sisters of Christ, we can be moved by our logic and by our hearts as well. But I think that God works mostly through the heart. Our hearts can be warmed with love by the Holy Spirit. Christ moved people, not through logic but by the heart.
His parables teach us by allowing us to relate the thoughts of the parables through our own eyes which allow our hearts to influence us. Our decisions that we come to through the heart are compelling decisions. They move us. Whether they seem right or wrong, we move because of them.
The Apostle Paul had the same thing happen to him. "Afterward Paul felt compelled by the Spirit to go over to Macedonia and Achaia before going to Jerusalem. “And after that,” he said, “I must go on to Rome!”” Acts of the Apostles 1:21 NLT. Where is an area you are missing that has compelling momentum?
Maybe it is that you are concentrating on logic instead of the heart. When we trust the Holy Spirit and ask for it to help us, we open our hearts to the encounter of God in our daily walk. Where can you open that area that might be a little bit closed this week? It will do your heart good to fill it up.
What is the first thing that you can do about it in the next seven days?
Let us pray, Heavenly Father, you are the Master of the heart. You have moved people through their hearts throughout the ages. We ask that you might remove the cloak of logic where it might be holding us from loving you more. Bring your love to wash us clean and remove the stickiness of our limited human logic.
Move our hearts and minds to honor you. In Jesus’ name, we pray. Amen,
