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Lunch With a Novice

After an investigation into the claims, it was discovered the tech who rinsed out the weed control truck failed to see that weed killer had caked itself to the walls of the tank on the truck. Because of that, as I sprayed the lawns with insecticide, I was also soaking the plants and grass with weed killer.

Weed killer doesn’t know the difference between a flower or a blade of grass, it simply kills the plant life it is applied to.

What was on the inside of the tank destroyed the lawns, regardless of the good intention to protect them.

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When speaking to religious leaders of His day, Jesus told a similar story, one of highlighting that what is on the inside is of vital importance in leading:

Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean. Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness. (Matthew 23:25-28)

Like the tank filled with insecticide but caked with weed killer, what is on the inside of a leader is what he will pour over those he leads.

What makes up the inside is more important than what the outside appears to be; more important than created effects, and even more important than intentions. What makes up the inside is what you will touch others with.

In your case, what is that?

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