a word on servant leadership

In training today I had an incredible officer sum up the type of leader I pray to be:

"The formation does not exist for you...you exist for the formation"

He asked the room how we were preparing ourselves to be a servant leader. Soldier work in a unified manner, and as I leader I must become a part of that unity...working alongside as I lead from behind. I had never really thought about how the formation does not rest in whether I am there or not...but if the formation is not there that falls on my leadership (or rather my inabilities). It's about the soldiers in front of me...who they are as people, what their life story is. It's not necessarily about my leadership and how I can get ahead...but what can I do better to prepare the person in front of me to be a better citizen. How can I help them reach their full potential.

In the bible it even says:

"and whoever wants to be first must be your slave— just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

~Matthew 20:27-28

and so I pray for the strength to ransom my life as well as I commit to being a servant leader and existing for the formation...