Seize the Moment – Day 653
Take Responsibility!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Thursday, December 30.
I was recently in a meeting, when someone suggested that we put a name next to each action item. If you want something to get done, then someone must take responsibility to bring the good idea to fulfillment.
Moses completed the second giving of the Law (12-26) and was about to lay out the blessings and curses of the Law (27-28). But first, a command was given by Moses and the elders, in Deuteronomy 27:1-3, that the people must publicly commit themselves to obeying the Law in a covenant renewal ceremony upon their entrance to the Promised land:
Then Moses and the elders of Israel charged the people, saying, “Keep all the commandments which I command you today. So it shall be on the day when you cross the Jordan to the land which the Lord your God gives you, that you shall set up for yourself large stones and coat them with lime and write on them all the words of this law, when you cross over, so that you may enter the land which the Lord your God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, promised you.”
It is important that “the elders of Israel” were included in the giving of this charge with Moses, whereas, it had been only Moses speaking prior to this. The answer for this addition was simple, Moses would not be with them when they entered the Promised Land so, just like with the pronouncement of Joshua as the next leader (Deuteronomy 3:28), the elders were put in a position of responsibility to ensure the covenant renewal ceremony happened upon their entrance.
Seize the moment and take responsibility for what needs to get done around your home, church, and community. Don’t expect others to do what God lays on your heart to be done. Jesus is calling you to do great things for Him (Ephesians 2:10)!