Fight for Good

I have a friend who was an Emmy Award-winning television producer, yet for all her success, she was a failure at leadership. She was young and backslidden, but Jesus shouted to her one day through the voice of an angry co-worker. It’s good she listened.

“You argue over everything! Only you have the answer. Your opinion or idea is always best. People have stopped listening to you because you don’t know what hill to die on — you die on them all. You need to learn to choose your battles!”

Wow! That was a wakeup call for my friend and an alarm that should be sounding in your ear. It’s true — not everything is worth fighting over. And not everything is worth fighting for. Make no mistake, upgrade is worth fighting for.

“Then there arose a reasoning among them, which of them should be greatest.” – Luke 9:46

Jesus’ 12 best friends, His disciples, had it right. They fought over not only being great but which one of them would be the greatest!  Because they yearned for more of the greatness of Jesus, it started rubbing off on them — ordinary fishermen and tax collectors. People the world thought of as nothing special or, in the case of tax collectors, despised thieves suddenly wanted to not only be great but good, like their leader.

In Jesus, we have the best example of goodness. I think He got a kick out of his friends trying to one-up each other for the crown of greatness. He would surely get a kick out of you deciding to go after it, too!