True Alignment through shared convictions
In Amos 3:3 we read a question “can two walk together unless they are agreed?”
Any glance at our world, our politics, our homes, our cities and you can see we are short of agreement and alignment. It seems we guard our independence so closely we have forgotten what it is to live for something bigger than ourselves. While we look out for number one the vulnerable suffer and no great purpose is achieved.
Martin Luther King once said “An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
True alignment or agreement is not about just getting people to simply comply or cooperate. Alignment and true agreement is a synergy that flows from strongly held shared convictions. Alignment does not just flow from our actions or words but from our beliefs and values.
The ten year old in class forced to sit when he wanted to stand says to himself “on the outside I am sitting but on the inside I am standing up.” this is not agreement this is compliance.
Alignment requires a unswerving commitment to unity, shared goals and shared values. In this environment differing opinions held by individuals can be explored for the best way to accomplish the mutual objective. In this environment our differing strengths and view points bring strength to the team rather than constant adversarial contest so prevalent in places of influence.
So before any family, business, church, or community can move forward there needs to be an agreement to, and a personal ownership of, foundational truth and values. Through relationship with Jesus we encounter, purpose, grace, truth, promise and relationship; the foundations of genuine alignment.
“I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” – Jesus Jn 10:10
Yours in Him
Geoff Blight
