Leaders Must Deal With This Psychological Mirage And Others Before People Are Affected And Infected
Another crazy craze has appeared over these recent years.
The third Monday in January has been called "blue Monday", attaching layers of negativism to the concept.
This is a matter leaders need to deal with before people are affected and infected by this psychological mirage.
How did it arise? The so-called hedonistic festivities are over, the weather is described as depressing, and most New Year Resolutions will have been broken, causing people to feel a failure.
Financial strains increase as Credit Card bills arrive, indicating the levels of overspend.
Better just to call it debt! It is rather sad that anyone allows all this to influence them, but apparently it does.
This could become a darkness where a man so needs the light of Jesus Christ to enable him to overcome such unnecessary gloom.
January will pass but some of the serious problems resulting from an irresponsible December may not disappear so quickly.
There was a man called Caleb.
He was faced with a real dilemma.
He was in a team of twelve who were spying out the land.
Ten gave such a negative report describing the occupants of the land as giants.
The problem appeared insurmountable, but Caleb and his colleague Joshua saw the situation quite positively.
Joshua knew the job could be done, as God would be with them.
The obstacles confronting them did not matter all that much.
Caleb was different too because he followed God wholeheartedly.
They were victorious and successful in every way.
We do not hear anything about the ten, but Joshua and Caleb go from strength to strength.
In the Old Testament blue is a colour associated with God, and the garments of the High Priest, and the place of worship and prayer.
Nothing negative or defeatist there! It all depends to Whom you look, and Whom you follow wholeheartedly, whether it be January or June.
It goes a stage further in the New Testament.
Jesus Christ, the Son of God, frequently takes what has gone before and develops and deepens the topic.
We have been looking at one of the consequences following the teaching of Jesus, and that has been these miracles.
That leper came in need when he was desperate, and he was cleansed.
We cannot heal what needs to be cleansed.
The Roman Centurion appears and he recognises authority, and in these present days very few people recognise real genuine authority.
Then we see the sheer simplicity of Jesus as He heals Peter's mother-in-law so that she can arise and serve.
Everything is out in the open with Jesus.
Then crowds come and there is no special healing service.
Jesus just gets on with it, but will not allow some folk to speak.
Then we have people rushing up to Him with all the right words and OK phrases but it is all so superficial and so shallow, and Jesus exposes it.
Over these past years I have observed that at the first sight of a cross or of a demand or of commitment, some people are off and vanish.
These men thought they had so much to offer.
Jesus will not accept delays and excuses.
We get a vision of Jesus leading and showing us what lies ahead, and as we follow Him, we progress, and advance and mature as disciples, and hopefully emerge as leaders with potential and grace and ability and authority.
The third Monday in January has been called "blue Monday", attaching layers of negativism to the concept.
This is a matter leaders need to deal with before people are affected and infected by this psychological mirage.
How did it arise? The so-called hedonistic festivities are over, the weather is described as depressing, and most New Year Resolutions will have been broken, causing people to feel a failure.
Financial strains increase as Credit Card bills arrive, indicating the levels of overspend.
Better just to call it debt! It is rather sad that anyone allows all this to influence them, but apparently it does.
This could become a darkness where a man so needs the light of Jesus Christ to enable him to overcome such unnecessary gloom.
January will pass but some of the serious problems resulting from an irresponsible December may not disappear so quickly.
There was a man called Caleb.
He was faced with a real dilemma.
He was in a team of twelve who were spying out the land.
Ten gave such a negative report describing the occupants of the land as giants.
The problem appeared insurmountable, but Caleb and his colleague Joshua saw the situation quite positively.
Joshua knew the job could be done, as God would be with them.
The obstacles confronting them did not matter all that much.
Caleb was different too because he followed God wholeheartedly.
They were victorious and successful in every way.
We do not hear anything about the ten, but Joshua and Caleb go from strength to strength.
In the Old Testament blue is a colour associated with God, and the garments of the High Priest, and the place of worship and prayer.
Nothing negative or defeatist there! It all depends to Whom you look, and Whom you follow wholeheartedly, whether it be January or June.
It goes a stage further in the New Testament.
Jesus Christ, the Son of God, frequently takes what has gone before and develops and deepens the topic.
We have been looking at one of the consequences following the teaching of Jesus, and that has been these miracles.
That leper came in need when he was desperate, and he was cleansed.
We cannot heal what needs to be cleansed.
The Roman Centurion appears and he recognises authority, and in these present days very few people recognise real genuine authority.
Then we see the sheer simplicity of Jesus as He heals Peter's mother-in-law so that she can arise and serve.
Everything is out in the open with Jesus.
Then crowds come and there is no special healing service.
Jesus just gets on with it, but will not allow some folk to speak.
Then we have people rushing up to Him with all the right words and OK phrases but it is all so superficial and so shallow, and Jesus exposes it.
Over these past years I have observed that at the first sight of a cross or of a demand or of commitment, some people are off and vanish.
These men thought they had so much to offer.
Jesus will not accept delays and excuses.
We get a vision of Jesus leading and showing us what lies ahead, and as we follow Him, we progress, and advance and mature as disciples, and hopefully emerge as leaders with potential and grace and ability and authority.