Leadership Begins

23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Matthew 6:22-24

Leadership so often creeps in softly on little cat feet. Well, actually it doesn’t, but that’s what you’d like to think. Consider this scene here if you will. If you won’t that’s fine too but what if I told you it was the difference between one eyes or two. The difference then is found in the masters. It matters then who is the one doing the controlling or in this case leading the few. Whether few or a little or made into much, it doesn’t matter now. It’s not about as we saw before the size of the numbers. Rather, it’s all about where we end up. Getting to this conclusion then takes some time. You’ve got to get the old master out of the house and get it down from one eye to two. Really, when was the last time you saw someone frantically taking orders from first one person then also doing the opposite upon orders received from the next. I mean, that just doesn’t make sense to anyone much less the one doing it I suppose. There’s all sorts of reasons given for justifying that sort of behavior. Remember last time we saw the values discussed in the text. Who you will serve determines which is your master between that and the rewards you will get. In this case, you could call it shared values. The leaders become like the masters who tell people what to do based on shared values. I mean, when was the last time you saw someone following what they didn’t believe in, really. Then again, there’s the values such as time, materials, or money in addition to the supernatural or getting things done. Singularity in the eye then speaks of both together working in unison, not that you’ve somehow gotten an eye chopped out of the bargain. The eyes also see what the body desires. These things can either be the wants or the needs. That’s why when the eye is singular, ie what you want along with your master, that’s what produces the light. It’s good for the body see not to be in constant fights but an experience of harmony. Having two eyes implies the two masters behind cause you know one eye can turn in one direction and the other the next. Nor do they always want what the other desires. One eye wants one thing which might hurt you while the other desires what you do deep down inside. You know, what you would were you really, truly honest with yourself. What might that have if anything to do with leadership? As it turns out, it matters a lot