You are a leader

“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do men light a lamp and put it under a peck measure, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house. Let your light so shine before men that they may see your moral excellence and your praiseworthy, noble, and good deeds and recognize and honor and praise and glorify your Father Who is in heaven.” Matthew 5:14-16(AMP)

Everyone in the body of Christ is called to lead. This is because you are the light of the world. Light guides, light exposes, and light shows the way. Therefore as a member of the body of Christ, from the day you got born again, the responsibility of leadership was placed on you. This is why from the moment you announce to others that you are a Christian, they begin to use a higher standard to measure what you do.

Have you noticed that since you got born again, if you reacted in certain ways, someone who knows you are now born again would ask you a question like this, “I thought you said you are now born again?” In other words they unconsciously now begin to expect more from you than before because you are a Christian. This is because as a Christian you have now become a leader, you are different and the world does not expect you to live like them.

1 Peter 2:9 (AMP) says, “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a dedicated nation, [God's] own purchased, special people, that you may set forth the wonderful deeds and display the virtues and perfections of Him Who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.”

PRAYER
Dear Father I thank you for the responsibility to lead. I ask that my life will be for the praise and glory of God even as Christ is formed and manifested in and through me today and always in Jesus Name. Amen.

For further study read: 
Ephesians 4:20-32, Ephesians 5:1-5(AMP), Colossians 3:9-13.

DOING THE WORD
Consciously reflect the character of Christ in your daily life.