Has the uncertainty of the future caused you to loose your boldness? (147-4)

Wise leaders go boldly but not blindly into their future. Read Ecclesiastes 11:1-6.

The fast paced world of today’s leaders forces them to take calculated risks, proactively establish goals, and develop momentum toward those goals without all the facts. The demands on leaders to complete tasks and move on generally won’t allow them to wait for the perfect conditions before making a decision and taking action. Both the risks and moving forward before conditions are perfect are excursions into unexplored territory and will draw on a leader’s courage and discernment.

Since there is no such thing as a “sure thing,” as a leader directs their team into the future they must strive to make wise decisions the first time and every time and no decision is wise made independently of God. Solomon tells us in Ecclesiastes 11:4, “Whoever watches the wind will not plant; whoever looks at the clouds will not reap.” Leaders functioning only with human wisdom tend to wait for perfect conditions and never get anything done. Ecclesiastes 11:6 reveals God’s wisdom concerning planting and harvesting, “Sow your seed in the morning, and at evening let not your hands be idle, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or whether both will do equally well.”

In these economically interesting times, have you found yourself reluctant to make decisions about the future? Has the uncertainty of the future caused you to loose your boldness because the predictability factors you have used in the past are gone and you feel blind looking ahead? Has your leadership allowed your organization’s forward momentum to stall because you are waiting for better or perfect conditions before you make a decision? When faced with a risky business decision, the godly leader will go to God in prayer and to God’s revealed Word for the perspective and courage needed to make the right choice.