Life Lesson: Learning to Follow

The accomplishment of work is either by leading to do the work or following the leading or both. One lesson that I have been learning these days is learning to follow the leading. Though for many official tasks I have been taking the initiative to do the work in fellowship and coordination with my co-working brother, there are many other areas where I simply follow the leading through the brothers especially those related to the church and the propagation work. It has been a blessing for me to simply follow the brothers' leading. I could think of no better leading. 

The past three weeks there was an intensified propagation in Gurugram. For the practical detail of where and how to propagate, I had no opinion of my own. I was not even in a position to participate as I desired too. My official and family responsibility occupied me so much. But when I did join on the weekends, I simply followed the brothers, young or old. It was a blessing to just follow who has the leading.

This reminds me of the testimony of a brother who testified that when he was about to leave a country where he served due to lack of clarity on how to lead the saints, a brother fellowshipped with him that if he did not know how to lead or what the Lord’s leading was, he should simply listen to the saints and follow the Lord's leading through the saints. Then he took that fellowship and listened to what the saints had to say. Just by listening to the saints he knew what the leading of the Lord was, at that time in that place.

Many ambitious people would prefer to lead than follow. To follow for them is to be under someone and their pride would not tolerate the humiliation of following. Pride blinds people. If one does not know how to lead, or even if he did know, it is a blessing to follow the Lord's leading through our fellow members of the Body. 

As the brothers in the church came together to fellowship on the Lord’s move in our city and how we could participate in it, I felt very blessed to listen to the brothers' fellowship and simply follow. If I had any leading from the Lord concerning any matter I would present it or the brothers in fellowship. If I did not have one, I simply listen to the brothers and follow His leading through them. This was my experience last weekend. I felt very blessed that I can participate in the Lord’s move in this city in coordination with the brothers. In a similar manner, in all matters related to my official responsibility, the church, or the propagation of the gospel, I simply learn to listen to the fellowship and also learn to follow the leading of the Lord.

If I had any feeling concerning any matter during the fellowship, I present it to the brothers. Yet simply follow their leading whether my fellowship was taken or not. And I had no feeling whether my fellowship was regard or not. We are in the Body and in whichever we were led, I simply follow. In following is the coordination and the blessing. The Lord blesses the Body serving in coordination and in one accord.

May the Lord preserve me, the brothers, and all the saints to blend and build up with one another to the extend that we all in oneness follow the Lord's leading through the fellowship of the Body.