Day 6: 90-Day Bible Challenge

Day 6: 90-Day Bible Challenge

Today’s reading:
Exodus 15:19-28:43

A thought or two:
There is an interesting story in our reading today where Moses’ father-in-law, Jethro, out of concern for Moses and for God’s people lovingly confronts Moses about his leadership style. Moses was sitting alone, operating as the judge over every dispute that needed to be settled. That doesn’t seem too bad until you realize that the population of the people was into the millions.

Jethro let Moses know this wasn’t a good thing and that Moses needed to equip and release others to do the same things Moses was doing. He told Moses to concentrate on doing the things that only Moses could do himself.

Even if you aren’t in a position of leadership, this is a very important leadership principle to understand. Leaders cannot lead at the level that they are called to lead at if they don’t develop leaders around them. You might be a Moses that needs to develop leaders around you, you might be one of the people that is being developed as a second, third or fourth tier of leadership, or you might be one of the people that the leader and his/her leaders are leading, but wherever you are on the leadership flow chart, you need to realize that one person can only do so much.

As an associate pastor at a growing church I often get to see people’s mentality transition in respect to this lesson Moses and the children of Israel had to learn. I see people realize that our senior pastor cannot and should not have to be involved in every single detail of the life of our congregation. In order for the Kingdom of God to advance, leaders have to equip people that they can delegate responsibilities and leadership roles to and those people have to be responsible and faithful to their call.

Tomorrow’s reading:
Exodus 29:1-40:39