Seize the Moment – Day 472
Share the Heavy Load!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Friday, July 2.
Leadership can feel like a heavy burden of responsibility! There is something about that word that changes the weight of work. Responsibility doesn’t mean you have to do it all yourself.
Moses was being crushed by the yoke of leading God’s people. His father-in-law, Jethro, had a word of mentorship for Moses that would forever change Moses’ life for the better, but has also changed my life for the better, and will transform any leader’s life who will listen and learn.
Listen to selections from Exodus 18:17-21 as Jethro speaks to Moses:
The thing that you are doing is not good. You will surely wear out, both yourself and these people who are with you, for the task is too heavy for you; you cannot do it alone. … You be the people’s representative before God, and you bring the disputes to God, then teach them the statutes and the laws, and make known to them the way in which they are to walk and the work they are to do. Furthermore, you shall select out of all the people able men who fear God, men of truth, those who hate dishonest gain; and you shall place these over them as leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties and of tens.
We call this delegation! Moses learned it, Jesus modeled it and Paul mobilized the church with it! Good leaders don’t try to do it all; they share the load!
If you are a leader, then pray and ask God to show you who you can delegate and empower to serve alongside of you to fulfill the responsibilities of God in your life. If you are not currently in a leadership position, then pray and ask God where you can get involved to lend a helping hand.
Seize the moment and carry one another’s burdens.