Anglican Daily Fountain Devotional 4th May 2021 Tuesday Message
TOPIC: The Essence and Qualities of Leadership
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TEXT: Deuteronomy 1:9-18(NKJV)
9. ” And I spoke to you at that time, saying: ‘I alone am not able to bear you.
10. ‘The LORD your God has multiplied you, and here you [are] today, as the stars of heaven in multitude.
11. ‘May the LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times more numerous than you are, and bless you as He has promised you!
12. ‘How can I alone bear your problems and your burdens and your complaints?
13. ‘Choose wise, understanding, and knowledgeable men from among your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.’
14. “And you answered me and said, ‘The thing which you have told [us] to do [is] good.’
15. “So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and knowledgeable men, and made them heads over you, leaders of thousands, leaders of hundreds, leaders of fifties, leaders of tens, and officers for your tribes.
16. “Then I commanded your judges at that time, saying, ‘Hear [the cases] between your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the stranger who is with him.
17. ‘You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small as well as the great; you shall not be afraid in any man’s presence, for the judgment [is] God’s. The case that is too hard for you, bring to me, and I will hear it.’
18. “And I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do.
STUDY: Many families, organisations and nations are in chaos because of bad leadership. Leaders are necessary because no one person, as Moses said, can do the work alone (v.9). Leaders are always faced with weaknesses, pressures and the burdens of the led (v.12) Hence, it is important to create chains of leadership over tens, fifties, hundreds and thousands (v.15) for effectiveness. This is a lesson for people who feel threatened, when others try to work with them.
Today’s passage states that leaders should: Be wise, understanding, experienced and respectful; have ability to sacrifice time to attend to subordinates; demonstrate fearless impartiality in judgment no matter who is involved; be able to understand the dynamics of hierarchical organisation.
Unfortunately some leaders are chosen based on religion, ethnic, kinship, etc. Such choices end up becoming square pegs in round holes; the bane of various organisations and nations tor decades. Let us learn to choose leaders according to biblical principles. Note that as the light and salt of the world, we are all leaders as believers. Hence it is expected that we pattern our lives to be wise, respectful, impartial, fearless, sacrificial and dependent on godly superiors.
PRAYER: Father, give us wisdom to choose godly leaders in our nation and Church and help me lo exhibit godly leadership qualities in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
Daily Fountain Quote of the Day
“Your potential is the sum of all the possibilities God has for your life.”– Charles Stanley
Anglican Daily Fountain Devotional 4th May 2021 Message. The Church of Nigeria is the Anglican church in Nigeria. It is the second-largest province in the Anglican Communion, as measured by baptized membership, after the Church of England.
