What's The Matter? [An Encouragement to Discouraged Leaders]

I went home feeling a little bit disappointed on some things that I expect to happen.

Have you also experienced this? Have you encountered when the source of your inspiration became also the source of your desperation? I have experienced this in life and I know lots of leaders out there have also experienced this. There are instances when we ask the following questions concerning our lives, family, work and even church -

"What's the matter with them?"

"What's the matter with the organization?"

"What's the matter with him or her?"

As I arrived home, I went to my office and opened the Word as I opened my heart for counsel. This verse spoke to me -

At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to shew thee; for thou art greatly beloved: therefore understand the MATTER, and consider the vision. - Daniel 9:33

Radical truths, which I applied today:

When you start to ask God in prayer, it is a sign that you stopped trusting in yourself.

The moment you seek His will in the problem, God will show His power.

    What a promise! "I am come to show you." Yes, when you come to Him in prayer, He will show you greater things.

Don't forget that the challenges and issues in life never minimize God's love for you.

   An assurance: "You are greatly beloved."

The bottom line of God's counsel in this verse is, 

  "Understand the matter. Consider the vision."

Understand the matter because in understanding, there is strength. If you fail to choose to understand people's frailties, organization's setbacks, crisis and challenges, you fail to be positive in life. And when you fail to understand, you will react to work from desperation. How many leaders failed to motivate their people because they responded out from desperation when they ought to motivate people out of inspiration? 

If you choose to reach and address any matter, address the matter in the basis of inspiration and not of desperation. Desperation produces stress, further conflict and anger. Inspiration produces encouragement, high morale and good results.

Understand the matter and then, consider the vision.

Don't allow disappointments, setbacks and crisis to distract you away from your vision. You should not respond to situations with the same attitude that made it. You should go back to your vision, or to your organization's visions. Oftentimes, we fail to address the matter because we tend to devise many things to solve the issues when what we need to do is just go back to the visions already set for us and do them. This is what will solve any problem, issues and crisis. Keep on working for the vision with the fire of inspiration. You are disappointed because you focus more on the matters, which should not matter at all than on the visions. In anything that is happening, there is always a vision. It means something bigger is coming. Something greater is coming. Focus on that vision.

As I meditated this radical truth, I stood up, smiled and with a recharged soul I asked myself, 

"Whew! What's the matter with me? 

I have no reason at all to be discouraged or disappointed."