“As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another” ( Proverbs 27:17).

There is a tool that is often used to improve leadership skills known as Johari window. According to it individuals can have four spots one of which is called the blind spot. This is an area where you have a particular flaw but might not be aware. You could have a terrible hot temper you perceive as a good motivator though the effect is demotivating to your team.

One person we know who had a blind spot was King David. After ordering the murder of Uriah the Hittite in order to have his wife Bathsheba, David went about like nothing had happened ( 2 Samuel 11). But God had seen it all! One day in comes the prophet Nathan. Look at the way how he went about to help David discover his blind spot. He tells him off a story of a rich man who had a poor man killed in order to snatch his pasture and feed his guests. Incensed, “David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan, “As surely as the Lord lives, the man who did this must die! He must pay for that lamb four times over, because he did such a thing and had no pity”         ( 2 Samuel 12: 5-6).

Just at that moment when David was all content in own his righteous, “Then Nathan said to David, “You are the man!” (vv 7). Humbled, Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord” (vv 13).

What does this mean to us! First, any of us could have a blind spot - an area of weakness we are not even aware of. But just as in the case of David we might need someone who can come and help us see that weak spot we are blind of. But yet at the same time, secondly, the person should be tactful in helping us so. Imagine if Nathan had come charging at David accusing him right way of being a murderer. I bet the response might have been totally different!

May God help us find and have those tactical Nathan’s in our lives who can help us discover our blind spots, which we all have, to be better servants of Christ.

Prayer today: Lord Father God of Abraham, maker of heaven and earth, there is always that area of weakness any of us has which we might not be aware of, and so I pray you help me discover it with support of a true friend, to serve you better, this I pray in Jesus’s name!