2026 Week 23 Filipino Value Focus: LEADERSHIP

Leadership is the ability to spearhead an activity, program, or cause for others to achieve a specific goal. It entails stature, capacity, and an overcoming perspective. As a corollary, a person who is easily shaken by circumstances and adversity may lack the stature to lead. One who reacts poorly and is easily rattled by problems must build their capacity for leadership. In the same vein, they must assess his perspective to stand firm in the heat of battle. Leaders pay the price and clear the pathway for others to enter into their destinies. They make things easier for the next generation to rise. They break the fallow grounds and chart the course amidst uncharted waters. They pioneer a certain move and set the trends for others to follow. 

Understanding this, we can realize that leadership is more than just an art, a position, or a title. It entails gifts and graces in operation. It is not just about having high educational attainment, knowledge, skills, and abilities. It also requires preparation on the inside to handle big responsibilities. One may be an expert in people management and the rudiments of administration based solely on theory, but collapse in practice. Some people placed in leadership may burst out on the playing field and become crushed by overbearing burdens and intense pressures. The rule thus remains that a novice must not be hastily put in a leadership position, and the one who aspires to it must be willing to sacrifice and ready to pay the price coupled with it. 

Moses in the Bible exemplifies this value. He was a prince of Egypt before his voluntary exile to the land of Midian. As a prince, he was well taught. He was equipped with skills and talents. He was an expert in different fields. However, he was further processed by God in the wilderness for forty years; only after that long period of honing and pruning was he ready to lead. It was when he possessed the required characteristics that God summoned him to do a great task. It proved that his societal status and educational attainment were not enough to lead the Israelites, nor was it his own strength or might. 

Leadership is not for personal aggrandizement or domination. It is ruling with accountability and selflessness. To lead entails selfless love and service to people. As they say in the movies, "With great power comes great responsibility," and this is also true in leadership. If you want to be great, be the servant of all.

ACTION PLAN

1. List down the leadership qualities that you want to possess and identify some steps on how you may achieve them. Every week, check ourselves to see whether we are meeting all the qualities we have listed down. 
   
2. If we are parents, elder siblings, or the head of the household, we should reflect on the areas where we failed as leaders and try to make up for them. 
   
3. If we are leaders of certain organizations or associations, what legacy do we want to leave to our members, and what lasting programs and projects do we want to implement in our community or society? List them down and have a strategic plan to accomplish them.

DECLARATION

We are the leaders this nation is looking for. We will do our best with God's help. We will not compromise and never lower the standard of righteousness. We will stand firm in upholding divine principles and the rule of law. We will set the example and model what we teach and direct. We will carry upon ourselves the manner and conduct of an excellent leader. People will respect us not because they fear us but because they honor and love us.​

​PRAYER

God, help us become good leaders to the people under our supervision. Build in us the character and qualities of excellent leaders. Help us not to abuse our authority or to see our position as a source of power to debase or oppress others. You are the leader and ruler of our lives. Help us follow and obey Your statutes. Lead us always, oh God, towards the fulfillment of Your plans and promises. Make us good followers of You that we may become good leaders. Amen.​

The content of this page is updated weekly and is not archived in the website.  Please purchase the BOOK to have a copy of all 52 Filipino value focus content.
MESSAGE US for other order options.