Leading Servant

     Everybody wants to be a leader. Nobody wants to be a servant because people have this perception that servants are lower, inferior beings, a little higher than nothing. Take for example politics in our country. Everyone is craving to be president, or at least the president’s president. It is seldom heard from people, “I aspire to be a maid servant.” Ok, I made my point.
     Jesus, while he was still on earth, was a leader. He made his campaign to save all people by believing on Him and following God’s ways. He led his own few disciples by teaching them spiritual things using physical things, and by parables and miracles. If you have read leadership books, you will encounter this principle right away that Leaders must not withhold knowledge that is important for your followers’ growth, so someday the leader can trust his followers to do his duty well when he is not around. As you might have assumed, this is applicable in the workplace.
     However, some leadership books are lacking on something. You can seldom see that a leader must also be humble, loving and show compassion to his followers. Jesus showed his leadership qualities by being first a servant by washing his disciples’ feet; feed multitudes, kindness to outcasts and following his Spiritual Father wherever he goes, thus setting an example for others that a leader must also serve.