Servant Leadership: Humility is not pity.
Welcome to episode 3 of The Story Tree . Today, I’ll be reflecting from the heart, and I’d love for you to join me in this. One of my professors once told me that leadership is the ability to use power to influence decisions, which leads people to follow you. This means that leaders have power. In my Leadership Boot Camp (a year-long course where I’m learning to guide others while serving in God’s Kingdom), I’ve learned that it’s important for leaders to seek wisdom from God. We must always remember that as leaders, we are God’s clay—His vessels to shape and use however He sees fit. As I was growing up, I struggled to understand what humility truly meant. I knew it had something to do with putting others first and lowering yourself. But life isn’t always a smooth ride, and over time, I came to think of humility as feeling sorry for myself. If others pitied me because of my situation, I thought that made me humble. I believed humility meant accepting mistreatment without standing up f...