Joshua takes over from Moses. In some ways a simple handover of leadership but how often do you see this in church? In fact, in some ways maybe this is quite human. Moses does not stand down in as much as God makes him stand down. Why? Because he mis-represented God and His holiness when he disobeyed God's command to speak to the rock for water. We can see God as vindictive and wanting to teach Moses a lesson but we can also see a God who realises Moses' character flaw is unsuitable in someone who is leading a nation to capture a whole country. Let us not be unfair to the guy, he experienced more than most people who have ever lived but we realise that God is not a respecter of persons. He does not choose people because they've been around a while or are well known or have run famous churches or written popular books. God chooses who He chooses for His own reasons sometimes we think that he wants our experience to provide quality in ministry, most of the time, He just wants people who can listen, trust and obey, something that often becomes worse over time rather than better.
Do we constantly analyse our own leadership roles or those we supervise and ask whether these are the right people to continue? Probably we don't like to offend so we just hope that people will leave as soon as possible and we can pretend we are really upset about them leaving and then just move on.
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