As I've read through the book Exodus several times, I came across two statements that I found interesting: 'The Lord said to Moses,' and 'Moses said to the people.' There's an important lesson here. Until you have heard from God, what do you have to say to anybody else that's worth consideration?
Does that mean God won't use your brain? No, when your thoughts and desires are submitted to Him He will actually think and speak through you. What a privilege. The trouble is, sometimes we want to speak without first consulting God and hearing from Him. The people Moses had been called to lead hadn't heard from God for four hundred years. After ten generations of living without God's Word, can you imagine the shape they were in spiritually? If you want to know how such a mindset will act, look at their responses every time they had a problem in the wilderness. They wanted to go back to the security of Egypt!
To help people you must love them and listen to them, but you must be led only by God. Unless you know God intimately, when times get tough, the people you are helping will take you back to what's familiar and comfortable to them. When people want to go back to their old way of doing things, it's usually because they don't know God well enough. The litmus test of spiritual leadership is found in the ability to hear from God, and then to teach people to love God, to discern His will and begin to walk accordingly to it! So be a spiritual leader today and affect someone's life for Jesus! You are loved...
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