He saw the best in me
When everyone else around
Could only see the worst in me
When everyone else around
Could only see the worst in me
A COACH believes the best in you...a critic always assumes the worst. Friend, why would you ever listen to a person that believes the worst about you?
There are four types of leaders we need in our lives...
- Rock Leaders
- Gravel Leaders
- Sand Leaders
- Water Leaders
Each of these leaders have a distinct voice at distinct seasons in our life...
- Rock Leaders can be abrasive in their communication with you and how they deal with a situation in your life or character.
- Gravel Leaders can rub you the wrong way in what they say but they also have walked where you are walking and can identify with where you're at.
- Sand Leaders will filter you with their compassion, listening skills and understanding.
- Water Leaders will refresh you when you're dry and thirsty.
Whenever I've been corrected or instructed by a COACH, I know they aren't approaching me in cruelty but in courtesy. They VIEW me through the lens of "God's Got a Great PLAN for You!"
However, a critic can almost be compared to a vulture...circling overhead just waiting on you to fail. Sometimes, in the ministry, a vulture can swoop in looking for a piece of a sermon or a blog that they can rip out of context. A critic doesn't care anything about the person they are criticizing...they just want to rip you apart with assumptions.
A COACH knows what you're capable of and will push you to a STANDARD even when it's uncomfortable. What profit is it to us if we are allowed to UNDER PERFORM? A COACH will help us address the areas that we need to improve in but they will do it in such a way that we still feel loved afterward.
Roger Staubach who led the Dallas Cowboys to the World Championship in '71 admitted that his position as a quarterback who didn't call his own signals was a source of trial for him.
COACH LANDRY sent in every play. He told Roger when to pass, when to run and only in emergency situations could he change the play (and he had better be right!).
Even though Roger considered coach Landry to have a "genius mind" when it came to football strategy, pride said that he should be able to run his own team. Roger later said, "I faced up to the issue of obedience. Once I learned to obey there was harmony, fulfillment and victory."
God says, "I know the plans I have for you...plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future" (Jeremiah 29:11). He's made each of us as His "workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which god prepared in advance for us to do" (Ephesians 2:10). He will "equip you with everything good for doing His will" (Hebrews 13:21).
God has had His eye on you since before there was a world. He put you here to make a difference only you can make - because He never made another one like you. but so many people miss what they were born to be because they want to stay where it's safe. And yet, Jesus is there, calling you to aim higher than what you've been settling for. He wants you to go for the GOLD, not to settle for what's easy but empty.
More and more, my COACHES have stirred me to move out of where it was comfortable to follow HIM in a risky obedience. Actually, there's no such thing as a risky obedience, only a risky disobedience. When I've responded and gone with Him where I've never gone before, He has never left me out to dry!
COACH JESUS is calling you to do something big for Him! He has put COACHES in your life who BELIEVE the BEST in you!