Protocol
I’ve been serving as President of our local Board of REALTORS for this year. This is my second term serving in that position. I was reminded last week of my role in leadership. I actually serve on a team of leaders who serve to improve our services to our membership. As I studied our by-laws and parliamentary procedure, I realized how complicated it can be at times. Protocol is “the accepted code of procedure for a particular group, organization or situation”.
I can’t begin to imagine the all the details to proper protocol and procedure in connecting with the President of the United States or the King of another country. There would be all sorts of ways that I should behave and proper places to stand and so on. King Solomon spoke to procedure and protocol in Ecclesiastes. Check this out…
2 Obey the king’s command, I say, because you took an oath before God. 3 Do not be in a hurry to leave the king’s presence. Do not stand up for a bad cause, for he will do whatever he pleases. 4 Since a king’s word is supreme, who can say to him, ‘What are you doing?’ 5 Whoever obeys his command will come to no harm, and the wise heart will know the proper time and procedure. 6 For there is a proper time and procedure for every matter, though a person may be weighed down by misery. (Ecclesiastes 8:2-6 NIV)
I began thinking of the proper protocol and procedure before the Lord. I’m not sure that there is a proper procedure to come before Him. The only protocol I’m aware of in coming before the Lord is a humble heart. He can work and do amazing things when I come before Him with a humble heart. There are many times in leadership that it is really helpful to have a humble heart as part of my personal protocol/code of behavior.
Pressing On! Dwayne