Finally, another "hardest spiritual lesson" (here's #4: Thankfulness , #3: Praise , #2: Prunings , and #1: Let Go ): Obediently Doing Your Job and Letting God Do His Okay now, be honest and raise your hand if you like to lead instead of follow? To push through with your plans and make things happen? To set your own rules and goals? To follow your dreams? To stand in the spotlight? Our world values go-getters and leaders - people who succeed, who make the impossible possible, who dream big dreams and make them come true. It doesn’t put much value on people who shine the spotlight on someone else, who spend their lives in service to someone else, who work quietly in the background, or who follow and obey what someone else tells them to do . It doesn’t respect submission, obedience, and following, not nearly as much as it does autonomy, self-reliance, and leading. And so the world can’t really ...
