Are you secure enough to be vulnerable? (125-2)

Good leaders know how to balance transparency with being an example. Read Psalm 6:1-10.

In Acts 13:22 God says, “I have found David son of Jesse a man after my own heart…” David was a powerful individual. God blessed him in battle similar to a modern day superhero yet David never hesitated to reveal his emotions and sometimes his own weaknesses. Even after David became king of Israel and one of the most influential men in the Middle East he openly disclosed his fears, his anxieties, and his ambitions.

Can you imagine how Americans would treat a military or political leader who published a paper on the internet that had a paragraph that said “I am worn out from groaning; all night long I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears. My eyes grow weak with sorrow; they fail because of all my foes” (Psalm 6:6-7). The media would crucify that leader and their team would lose confidence. Leaders are trained by external stimuli from their earliest ventures into leadership what is acceptable behavior and what is not, yet a David, “…a man after God’s own heart,” felt the freedom to express his emotions.

Effective leaders understand their team’s need to demonstrate strength at the proper moment and vulnerability at the proper moment. Teams demand leaders they can trust to have integrity even with their emotions. Good leaders feel secure enough to be vulnerable.

1 Corinthians 9:22, “To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all men so that by all possible means I might save some.”