How to be a person of influence
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"Then the other administrators and high officers began searching for some fault in the way Daniel was handling government affairs, but they couldn't find anything to criticize or condemn. He was faithful, always responsible, and completely trustworthy" (Daniel 6:4).
A person of integrity, like Daniel, is a person who is always faithful, responsible, and trustworthy. He is the kind of person who earns the trust of others. He is a person of influence because people know he can be trusted. When he says he will do something, you know it will always be done.
The Center for Creative Research, in a significant study, "learned that one thing that sounds the death knell for those who aspire to the top rung on the ladder is betraying trust. Virtually anything else can be overcome over a period of time, but once trust is betrayed, moving to the top of the ladder is out of the question" (from a John Maxwell Leadership Podcast).
It has been said that, "It is always easy to do right when you know ahead of time what you stand for."
When you are in a pressure situation and you are faced with the choice to stay the course of truth or compromise that truth, what's inside you will always be squeezed out.
Let us dare to be a Daniel, never compromising, always faithful, responsible and trustworthy. If we are, we can be sure of one thing; We will always be a person of influence.
In the words of one of country music's queens, Tanya Tucker, "It's never too late to do the right thing now."
 | Tom Crenshaw serves as Connections Pastor of the New Monmouth Baptist Church (non denominational) where he previously served as a three year interim.He has been married to Jean for almost 50 years, and they have four children, all of whom are teachers.Tom loves perennial gardening, umpiring high school baseball, coaching baseball and football, fishing for small mouth bass, rooting for his favorite team, the Cleveland Indians, and listening to ‘real’ country music, the classic kind. Learn More » |
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