my feet

isaiah 50:11

But if all you’re after is making trouble, playing with fire, go ahead and see where it gets you. Set your fires, stir people up, blow on the flames, but don’t expect me to just stand there and watch. I’ll hold your feet to those flames.

being in leadership has been amazing. i have no doubt that YOU have created me for the things that i am doing. but this was unsettling when i read these words yesterday morning at 4:30ish. YOU were showing me that i am stirring people up. the people that look to me for leadership, i am causing them to think and question and pontificate, but not to act. and where i am is where it has gotten me. where i am is surrounded by thoughts, questions, ideas, dreams, doubts, regrets, and no actions beyond those that have been comfortable from day 1. and it is true of those that i lead as well. and i can blow on the flames all i want, but it doesn’t matter if actions are ever, ever, ever manifested in those that i lead if there is no action in my own life. YOU are holding my feet to the fire. the motivation in the things i teach are not simply to spur others on. it must be about the effect that is real in my life. if YOUR words aren’t affecting my heart, which affects my mind, which affects my actions, then leadership is dead. if a blind man leads the blind, then both will fall into a pit. YOU are not done with me. and i couldn’t be more excited about what that means. thank YOU for still wanting me, loving me, pursuing me today.