The purpose of a lighthouse is protection. It is positioned to protect seafaring vessels from destruction and running aground. The lighthouse is not mobile and cannot run to the rescue of others. However, the lighthouse is equipped with a bright light, a beacon, designed to shine and send a signal to vessels that might be coming close to dangerous areas of rock, and land mass. I believe you and I are to be lighthouses for the protection and security of others.

Each one of us has been strategically placed in life to be a protector of others. We are each equipped with a signal, like the beacon of a lighthouse. Some aspects of protector are easily detected such as being a parent. As a parent you know your role as protector for your children. In some situations you can run to your child and protect him. In others you guide and teach your child in what is safe and what is not. Throughout your child’s growing years you instill in him or her right and wrong, safety and areas of danger. Your desire is that when the child is not in your presence that your instruction and guidance in those earlier years will serve as a signal; a signal of protection just as the beacon from a lighthouse to those seagoing vessels.

This lighthouse effect is one area where every person on this earth has or will hold a leadership responsibility. It may be on the job, as a parent, an older sibling, on a sports team, or any number of other areas of life. We are all leaders and responsible for the protection, security, and safety of others. You may hold each one of these lighthouse positions at the same time. You may a parent, hold a supervisory position at work, be a volunteer leader at church, and coach or play on a sports team.

Each of these areas is different. The other people in your life, in each of these areas, are like different seafaring vessels looking toward the signal of the lighthouse. Each one is different, but each needs similar guidance. Each one is in need of protection from the rough and rocky terrain ahead. This is the reason the lighthouse exists.

The only way a lighthouse can protect each of these vessels is by sending the right signal. The question today is what signal are you sending to that co-worker, or those who report to you at work? Are they timid or terrified of you? Do they avoid you for fear of being bashed? Are they seeing in you the signal of which way to proceed to acquire not only a safe journey, but a successful voyage to the desired destination? Are you leading and guiding your children and grandchildren in the ways of this world or in the journey for eternal life?

The signal of the lighthouse is for every seafaring vessel that comes in view of its beacon. What signal are you projecting to those who see you daily and those who may pass by only one time on their own voyage? The signal you project is forecasting your leadership style and will have an impact on each and every one who enters your life, be it for a brief moment or a lifetime. Is the signal you are projecting casting the beacon, and ideal that you intend and that you were created to cast? How’s your signal?

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