“The Character of a Godly Leader”
Conclusion
Titus 1:9 explains that a godly
leader will hold fast the faithful word as he has been taught, that he may be
able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and convict those who contradict.
Normally, the closer we get to one
another, the more leniency we tend to have with each other. But what I have
discovered is the closer we get to God, the more accountable He holds us. On one occasion, God commanded Moses to take
his rod and his brother and gather the Israelites and SPEAK to the rock in
their mist and command water to come out.
Moses, out of anger, struck the rock instead. When we study Exodus thru Deuteronomy, we
observe that Moses spent a lot of time with God and as a result, kept his
errors down to a minimum. And by
minimum, I mean almost nonexistent. In
comparison to the other Israelites, Moses was flawless. But God does not calculate as we do. He doesn’t measure our actions in percentages
and He doesn’t determine our goodness by comparing us to others. He decides whether we are OBEDIENT or
DISOBEDIENT. For his disobedience and
lack of belief, God declared that Moses would not accompany the Israelites to
the end of the journey. God expects
total obedience from His leaders. He holds
His leaders completely accountable.
