Leadership Lesson:  Doing the right thing always makes the biggest difference. 

Don’t walk by wrong when you know what’s right. Don’t accept wrong, when you already know right. You don’t know right, you do right. You act right. You get it right. 

“It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there’ll be any fruit. But that doesn’t mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.”

-Mahatma Gandhi

You don’t do right to get an advantage. You do right because right is the advantage. Some people will try to do right because they think it puts them in a more favorable position, but they are not truly concerned about the correctness of the act.

Right always strengthens your position, even if you don’t see it at the time. When you do wrong and allow wrong, you are actually weakening your position. Wrong doesn’t change things for the better.

Doing right is always an investment in your longevity. When you do wrong you are sapping your strength and shortening the influence and impact you can have over time. Doing the right thing makes the thing last longer, produce more and sustain better.

The ability to make a difference is negated or neutralized when you don’t do the right thing. Doing the wrong thing or even maintaining a neutrality and indifference to what is right shortens your impact-span or life-span. Your impact-span is your ability to make a positive impact over time.

“To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.” (Proverbs 21:3)

Popularity does not make right.  Success does not make right. Power does not make right. Beware of a popular decision that sound good, but before God isn’t right. Beware of your success. Success will often blind you over time to what is right. Beware of unchecked power. Power unrestrained is not an admonition of what is right. Power is simply a force to do what is right. God is the ultimate judge of what is right. It is more important to be right in God’s eyes than right in the world’s eyes.

Right with God brings unseen blessing and favor at a time when you need it most.  Do the right thing and trust God with the fruit, the outcome or the results.

God honors those who do right.

(C) Alex Vann