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Wearing the veil

January 14, 2010 in Challenges with 10 Comments

As you all know, I have been going through a bit of a slump the last month in my relationship with God. Getting to comfortable in my ways, and getting back some of my old habits I had before committing my life to God.

This all while keeping up the front of not going through the slump, like Moses wearing his veil.

Exodus 34:33-35 (NIV)

When Moses finished speaking to them, he put a veil over his face.  But whenever he entered the LORD’s presence to speak with him, he removed the veil until he came out. And when he came out and told the Israelites what he had been commanded,  they saw that his face was radiant. Then Moses would put the veil back over his face until he went in to speak with the LORD.

Now, we generally make the mistake of thinking Moses put on the veil to hide his radiant face, but we learn in 2 Corinthians 3:13 that this was not the case

We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from gazing at it while the radiance was fading away.

Well, I am ashamed that I was wearing a veil for a couple of weeks, but thanks to God’s grace I was able to drop my veil once more.

Organisational structure, God’s way…

November 20, 2009 in Challenges with 1 Comment

Yesterday afternoon while sitting in traffic, in the rain, I was listening to a podcast from Mars Hill Church on leadership.

The scripture of the day was Exodus 18, which is such a great guideline for the way in which God wants us to organise our organisations and churches, to allow people to really be accountable and to be able to be more efficient in doing what they were called to do.

The main section of this chapter is verses 17 – 23 (The Message)

Moses’ father-in-law said, “This is no way to go about it. You’ll burn out, and the people right along with you. This is way too much for you—you can’t do this alone. Now listen to me. Let me tell you how to do this so that God will be in this with you. Be there for the people before God, but let the matters of concern be presented to God. Your job is to teach them the rules and instructions, to show them how to live, what to do. And then you need to keep a sharp eye out for competent men—men who fear God, men of integrity, men who are incorruptible—and appoint them as leaders over groups organized by the thousand, by the hundred, by fifty, and by ten. They’ll be responsible for the everyday work of judging among the people. They’ll bring the hard cases to you, but in the routine cases they’ll be the judges. They will share your load and that will make it easier for you. If you handle the work this way, you’ll have the strength to carry out whatever God commands you, and the people in their settings will flourish also.”

How many of the churches and organisations within which you work or are a part of is organised in this fashion?

It is also great to know, from this passage, that God placed delegation there for all of us to be able to function at our peak, and to know that we don’t have to do everything by ourselves.

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