Who Will Be Your Leader?

In life we have leaders and followers. Leaders in all walks of life. What makes a good leader?  Maybe even who makes a good leader? I would like to look at some of the leaders we find in the scriptures through a series of posts. 

Years ago, I read a book, One Straw Revolution, written by a Japanese man by the name of Manasobu Fukuoka. It has been so long ago I don't remember a lot of it, but one part resonated with me, and I will rephrase it since the wording seemed somewhat questionable, the gist was most people if given their choice of the type of ruler (leader) would choose the guy that wee's by the side of the road. Or, in my way of thinking an unassuming type of fellow that allows people to be free.


Moses as a young man sets out to save his fellow Israelites. He was raised as the son of Pharoh's daughter in the palace, but his own mother had been paid to nurse him after Pharoh's daughter found him in the little boat and drew him 'out of the water'. He probably was in his parents' care until he was five years old. During the important formative years.

However, at the age of forty he is out and about where he sees an Egyptian beating and Israelite. He comes to the aid of the Israelite, and the Egyptian dies. The next day he tries to separate two Israelites who are fighting. And this is what happens:

 Exodus 2:13  "And he went out the second day, and, behold, two men of the Hebrews were striving together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow? 14)  And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us?"

What a shock to poor Moses. Here he thought God had a purpose for him to be a helper for God's people. He was trying to help them to be 'free'. And what's more, Pharoh was after him now. So he fled to a land far away. A land called Midian. Moses liked Midian. It was peaceful and quiet. He liked the sheep, The sheep liked him. He was given a wife. He had food, lodging, a wife, and sheep. What more could he want? What more could he ask?

Then God appears to him in the burning bush with a mission. And Moses says to God:
Exods 4:13  And he said, Oh, Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.

Basically Moses says, thanks, but no thanks, God. Find someone else to lead your people. Moses had seen the heart of these people all he wanted to see, back when the two Hebrews were striving together.

Moses didn't desire money, power, or prestige. You couldn't give him anything that would make him desire the role of leading these people out of the land of Egypt.  But God still said, GO-- and he went. Not for money, nor for gain, but for God.
Hallelujah. What a Saviour.