We all have or will have leadership positions in some way or another.

Job positions, callings at church, being a parent.

King Benjamin and his son King Mosiah are pretty famous as the perfect examples of kings working alongside their people.

But the new King Mosiah’s reasoning stood out to me this time.

He served and worked with the people so that his leadership would not become a burden.

He didn’t make them do a whole lot more work just because he was their leader.

But he also didn’t just take on all the work by himself.

Leader and subject worked and served together.

In order to remove the burden.

Everyone still had to work, so the burden was not the work.

The burden was the leader imposing more work on the subjects and excusing himself under the guise of “leadership”.

Making the subjects do enough to cover what would have been the king’s contribution.

Which is, essentially, pride.

Thinking that we are better or worse than anyone else.

We can’t control how others lead.

We also can’t control what others think of our leadership.

But we can control how we think of our own leadership.

We can work on removing the pride and the burden, and working together.

Happy Studying!

-Cali Black

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  1. I just love your perspective and insights on each week’s Come Follow Me lesson and how you find examples from your own life!

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