Symphony of Your Heart

No matter who you are or what you're doing, you are following something. You may be the greatest leader of a massive cooperation but you are still following something. You are following the inclinations of your heart, the deep seeded passion of your inmost being. Those passions will either be a foundation to build people up around you, or used to tear people down as a foundation to elevate yourself. Consequently, as a leader you are acting out on your passions and when you actively step forward in this world with a vision, you will be affecting others around you. Therefore, leadership is influence.

Where does leadership go askew? How do we learn to give up our selfish passions of self promotion and lead with selfless love? We must go to the Composer of love, the One who created passion, the One who wrote individual symphonies (passions) in each of our hearts. As the song Virtuoso says we were:

“A handful of dust a worthless piece of clay
And You breathed the breath of heaven
Then there was a soul
The heart, the hands, the voice that could sing of Your perfection
Life is a symphony that only You can play
You know I can hear it through the madness everyday”

We were made in His image and only through sitting at His feet will we know how to bear His image in this world. In His presence we learn the deep never ending beauty of His mysterious character and how only He can empower us to have His heart for people. Only He can restore the symphony of our heart that we have tried to play, renewing ourperspective on life through giving us His mind. When the wild beauty of the symphony is unlocked we try to suppress it, sometimes it hurts to let others hear the song of your heart. Yet He is faithful to give us the courage, reminding us that it was never our symphony in the first place . . . we only must faithfully place our hands in His. We walk boldly forward knowing that we've been graced with favor in His sight and watch in wonder as His habits become ours.

We look back through the history of life and see inspiring examples of true leaders who have given their symphonies back to the Composer. We look forward to His kingdom where one day the symphonies of life will come together to praise the Virtuoso Creator with one mighty crescendo.

“A timeless melody of beauty and emotion
Perfect harmony inspiring true devotion
No one else can play its chords so graceful yet so strong
You made the instrument and wrote the song”

2 Corinthians 8:3-5

For I bear witness that according to their ability, yes, and beyond theirability they were freely willing. Imploring us with much urgency that we would receive the gift and the fellowship of the ministering to the saints. And not only as we had hoped, but they first gave themselves to the Lord, and then to us by the will of God.