Coming close to the fire

I've been reading through the book of Exodus lately and getting some much needed leadership insights. If you are a leader of any type, I hope the Lord encourages you through these words.


1 Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the desert and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. 3 So Moses thought, "I will go over and see this strange sight--why the bush does not burn up."
Ex 3:1-3 (NIV)

1. A good leader tends to those God has given him. He spends time with them and leads them into the very presence of God.
2. A humble leader understands that those that God has given him to shepherd are God's and he will stand before God one day and be accountable for them.
3. A pesistent leader is willing to lead God's flock to the "far side" instead of settling on the closest place of comfort.
4. A leader with a sense of spiritual curiosity is always seeking to find where God is at work.
5. A growing leader understands that fire represents God's desire to cleanse and refine a leader so he will be useful to the Master. Clean hands and a pure heart are an imperitive for God to use a leader.