Sun.’s Devo - True Leadership

Read: Exodus 17:8-19:15; Matthew 22:34-23:12; Psalm 27:7-14; Proverbs 6:27-35
As soon as the Lord did the miraculous sign of bringing water from the rock, the devil attacked by way of the Amelekites. As long as Moses held his hands up in surrender to God, they were winning, but as soon as he tired and dropped them, the Amelekites began to win. They propped Moses up on a rock and Aaron and Hur stood on either side of him holding up his arms until they had won the battle. God told Moses to write this down in a book to be remembered and be sure that Joshua hears it because the Amelekites will be completely blocked out of the memory of those on earth.
God wanted Joshua to remember this when he took the people to the Promised Land because he would meet them once again.
Aaron means “light bearer” and Hur means “a cave: white”. The rock Moses stood on was Jesus (1 Co. 10:4) so the picture is that when we stand on the Word of God and on Jesus Christ as our savior, we bring light to the nations and the Lord hides us in his secret place (the cave) where we are safe and secure.
After their victory, Moses met up with his father-in-law, Jethro and wife and two sons. Jethro stayed and observed Moses leadership and how he sat judging the people all day. He explained to Moses that if he kept doing that he would burn out. He needed to delegate his authority to others and train them to do what he did. Moses took his advice and trained 70 men to help him judge the people.
This is the sign of a leader - one who can relinquish power to others and train others to lead.
In the third month from the day they had left Egypt, Moses came to Mt. Sinai. God told them to sanctify themselves because on the next day he was going to speak to them. God would call them together with a blast on the ram’s horn.
In Matthew, the Pharisees asked one more question hoping to trick Jesus up. They asked which commandment was the greatest. He said to love the Lord with all your heart, soul, and strength was the most important one, but to love one another was the second. If you do both of these, the other commandments will be followed also.
Then Jesus asked them a question: Whose son would the Messiah be? They always thought that he would be one of David’s sons, but Jesus pointed out that David called God his Lord, not his father. This silenced them for the time. Jesus then turned to talk to the people. He told them that the scribes and Pharisees sat in the seat of authority so they had to do what they said, but they shouldn’t do what they did. He explained that the teachers of the law added so many laws to Moses law that it made it impossible to be righteous by their laws. They did this on purpose, to keep the people under their finger. Everything they did was a show when on the inside they were evil. They loved being called Rabbi but Jesus warned them that they only had one Teacher and one Father in heaven. He called them all brothers on the same plane. The one who humbled himself will be the one that God exalted.
Lord, help us to remember that true promotion starts with humility. Help us to freely pass on to others what you have given us.