THE MOUNTAIN TOP EXPERIENCE OF LEADERS
I will want to instill into us the mindset of generational leaders – the simple reason why they are able to affect generations of men beyond their time.
If you have money, its relevance is for a lifetime, even if you are a president, lacking this singular ingredient will cause you to be packed aside as soon as you step out of office.
Then how do one build perpetual relevance?
Let us take a quote from Martin Luther King Junior:
“And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., I’ve Been to the Mountaintop
Martin Luther KIng built this statement from Moses’s experience on Mount Pisgah.
By extension, great leaders learn and imbibe certain experiences from one another.
Let us look at Rev. Martin Luther King.
This was his last speech and prophetic to his death because this speech happens to be his very last. But the inherent lesson for you and me are:
Great leaders see beyond their time.
Great leaders invest into the far future
Great leaders sacrifice for generations.
How far can you see?… Just your family? A beautiful car? Some beautiful gadgets? Or some vain depreciating concerns?
What you see will determine your extension and impact.
Man is a spiritual being and by this factor we have the capacity to elongate ourselves beyond time.
For a spirit being doesn’t measure time and distance… In the fulness we are not limited or constraint not by money, government and forces around us.
For we are created in the very image of God…. We are deathless in our best form!
Hallelujah
Looking again into the message we will find the idea of a sacrificial person… I may not get there but we as a people will.
Martin Luther King is saying. It is not about me but US… a larger than life dream.
Yet some of us may shrug at such a life, but within such life is the seed of greatness. Ask yourself, where is the record of the billions that lived about the same time?
Like the prayer: Lord, let me die the death of a righteous man.
MOSES
Let us remember that Moses was the leader of this people. Yet he only had the glimpse. This doesn’t stop Moses to represent God to the people well afterward.
Great leaders are sacrificial
It cost God nothing to get Moses to enter the Promise land with the rest Israelites. God would not on the ground that Moses did not represent God well where Moses struck the rock for water against the instruction of God.
Moses cried and was pleading but God told him to silent that aspect. Then he gave Moses the offer to climb Pisgah and have a look.
From the above, we can learn that Moses was serving God not because of what he wants to gain but because of his purpose, love for God and love for the people.
At a point, God wanted to wipe the Israelites and promised Moses that he wanted to start a new nation through Moses, yet Moses still plead to God on behalf of these people.
Leaders who are to be remembered for ages and generations don’t live for the moment.
Are you living for the moment?
Look at your daily pursuit.
Which of them will outlive you?
Which of them are value based?
Would you compromise if you know you would not have any gain from a deal.
Remember: Moses who led Israel to the promise land has no gain in the deal. Even the High Priesthood was not assigned to his lineage.
Will you still do the will of God even when you do not have personal gains?
Few will – this type of people are rewarded with immortality of life and deeds
JESUS
Jesus total lifespan was 33 years, yet he lay his life down for you and me to die on the cross.
He said: I have the power to lay my life down and I have the power to take it back. It was his choice to lay it down in order that we might find salvation.
This sacrifice translated to a spiritual force to deliver mankind from the control of sin and satan
Jesus looked beyond our time when he was laying down his life… and God too gave him an elongated legacy without time or bound:
Ph’p:2:7: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
Ph’p:2:8: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
Ph’p:2:9: Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
Ph’p:2:10: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
The world measure us by what we have, but God measure us by what we give.
For God so love the world that he gave…
The mountain top experience is the ability of leaders to see beyond himself. This is what gives him the inner strength to keep going and if need be to make the supreme sacrifice.
The farther you can see the more it becomes difficult to stop halfway.
Today, if martin Luther King is to be alive he would be close to 90years. Don’t we have many of his age grade around today, who have lived long like Methuselah but without earthly relevance… They eat and drink, nothing more.
In retrospect, nations who do fine today are those nations with leaders who see beyond immediate material acquisition, pride of what they have and have shelf away the rat race of competitiveness.
Leaders that are advancing are such that have plans for generations…
As a world changer, what kind of leader are you evolving into?
What are the mountaintop vision you have caught? What do you live for that is beyond you? What drives you? Material acquisition or purpose?
Live in such a way that generations will remember you for good.
Finally, when you have caught the vision on the mountaintop, it will become difficult to live for mundane things. For on the mountain your eyes shall see the glory of the Lord.
God bless you in Jesus name
Extract of Martin Luther King
Well, I don’t know what will happen now. We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn’t matter with me now. Because I’ve been to the mountaintop. And I don’t mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I’m not concerned about that now. I just want to do God’s will. And He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over. And I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land. And I’m happy, tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.
