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Spiritual leadership of Moses

Contents
 * I.	Introduction
 * II.	Who is Moses
 * 1)    Moses’ life
 * 2)	40 years in the royal palace
 * 3)	40 years in the wilderness of Midian
 * III.	 Leadership of Moses
 * 1)	Moses leadership in Exodus
 * 2)	Spiritual leadership of Moses
 * IV.	  Conclusion

I. Introduction

 * Moses freed Hebrew people from the disastrous oppression under 430 years of slavery in Egypt. More than two million people many of the Hebrew people entered the land of Canaan, Moses is one of the greatest leaders. Hebrews during the Exodus, they are very lowly status and does not receive good education also they were the slaves of Egypt. he led them 40 years in the wilderness, led them from the fight adversity a more than hundred times, and fight to the enemies who obstruct their way. In the barren wilderness to face every kind of privation and discomfort in the Exodus, to keep their community from opponents they meet on the road. Moses had to maintain their national identity from the temptations of strange religious customs and immorality. to led many people to the Invisible land of Canaan, this is something that seemed impossible to do that but the Moses accomplished his job successfully. Today our society is changing rapidly. Due to these environmental changes, we will need a new organizational culture and business strategy. Eventually these will stimulate the appetites of the new leadership; new leadership that we are seeking is a spiritual leadership. People have been awaited the arrival of the great leaders like Moses in this situation. It is very hard to find the political leader who equipped with liberal and conservative and a great sense of morality and ethics are slim at this time, it seems to be there is any Religious leaders who build a right pillar of this society. In this regard, I miss his leadership that he led 200 million people from those in harsh environments. I strongly considered to be challenges to analyzed and study about his leadership. More interested in the leadership of Moses, it is because his spiritual leadership could be the great role model for us.

II. Who is Moses

 * 1) Moses' Life
 * One of the measures taken by the Egyptians to restrict the growth of the Hebrews was to order the death of all newborn Hebrew males. According to the Book of Exodus, Egyptian Pharaoh was worried that they might help Egypt's enemies. Moses' parents, Amram and Jochebed, hid him for three months and then set him afloat on the Nile in a reed basket daubed with pitch. The child, found by the pharaoh's daughter while bathing, He ended up being adopted into the Egyptian royal family. And he was reared in the Egyptian court. Fortunately, the mother of Moses, Jochebed went into the palace of Pharaoh as a nurse to teach and care for him for 40 years (Acts 7:22). We estimated that he received his own ethnic education for the Hebrews from Jochebed.


 * 2) 40 years in the royal palace
 * He was the Egyptian princess's stepson and the man who learning the best Martia. he was not interest about the enjoyment of wealth and power of the palace, but he was more concerned about the Hebrew people. One day Moses saw that one of Hebrew fellow countrymen beaten up by an Egyptian supervisor. And he got mad and he killed the cruel Egyptians supervisor. He is a prince in the court, and has a good and well physical condition as well and he knew how to kill the Egyptians with one blow because he was well trained. His life at the palace, it was the intelligence training and physical training. However, due to that happened, he had to escape to the desert of Midian with left everything behind.(Exodus 2:11-15,17) The dream that he saying the salvation of the Hebrew people is a shattered by this incident. The enormous power and wealth and fame that he's enjoyed disappeared in an instant.


 * 3) 40 years in the wilderness of Midian


 * It was emotional and spiritual dimensions of the training course. he acquired the humility and the dignity throughout the self-reflection from the failure in the wilderness. Through the being alone, he achieved that he had intimate relationship with God. he who did respond very carefully from the called by God for the  salvation of Israel. He fled to Midian for 40 years in wasted his time and spent the years of despair. Meanwhile, he dwells in the house of the priest of Midian, and married with his daughter sipborawa and got two sons. (Exodus 2:23, 18:3-4) One day when he became 80 years old, Lord appeared to Moses at Mount Horeb (also known as Mount Sinai) in the midst of the bush, and said: go to Egypt and  set Hebrews free from the slavery (Exodus 12:51). After Moses received the mission at Horeb, he devoted rest of his life to led Israel to escape as an Ambassador. And so his 40 years of life in the wilderness has begun.

III. Leadership of Moses

 * 1) Moses leadership in Exodus


 * Moses has the leadership that he obeyed and follow where God's lead him. his leadership moved the people through the vision for Canaan. During the Exodus the people was very tired of living a hard journey for 40 years in the wilderness, and they facing food problems or drinking problems and have a desire to live more stable life even want to go back to Jaded Egypt. Some of people Rebelling against the authority of Moses and the often promote rebellion. but the Moses, with the help of God's miracles and quail and manna falling from the sky so they filled their hunger, and the water from the rock resolved their thirst. Moses went up to the mountain to meet God every major moment. he first toward God and refrain from unilateral actions. He was a humble leader. Moses, seeking God's will and he followed with action what it says.He worked together with his brother Aaron, Sister Miriam, father is law Jethro, and effectively shares the leadership role with middle leaders to rise up leadership. His leadership was so self-sacrifice, he willing to take the responsible for the sins of the Israelites without any hesitates. When he arrived in Canaan, Moses commissions the new leadership to Joshua and died at the age of 120. When God choose a man for great purpose He put him on the crucible of suffering like this before God send him.


 * 2) Spiritual leadership of Moses
 * What is the spiritual leadership? It is the leadership that motivated people to the follow and do the God's work. He must lives own life to follow the absolute principle of God. When you build the house you need a advise from the architect or designers, just as a leader he need the advice of the God who is our creator to making the right choice.  Thus, who has the spiritual leadership may experience of spiritual depth than no one even imagine or think. To become a spiritual leader he should have the power of influence and authority. the authority coming from the worth of the efforts that service and sacrifice. It also entails responsibility, It should be able to provide the direction and to teach, maintain, to your fellow who walking together. You should able to deliver the vision. Spiritual leadership will move their people to do the God's work. and the first unique element of spiritual leadership has move people from the current position to the position where God wants. Second, spiritual leader it depended on just the Spirit. Third, the spiritual leader will lean and give all the responsible to God. Fourth, the spiritual leader influence to the Christian as well as those of the unbelievers. Fifth, the spiritual leader will do the works according to God's plan. If you a leader and you do not know and understand of your role, you will be failing. Spiritual Leadership is very essential element in the church as well as the company to lead people and organizations to the way of God. The spiritual leaders should be guided by the Holy Spirit Than their passion. Spiritual leader will be accomplished the will of God rather than led his people's goals and ambitions. The core element of the spiritual leadership is not a leader's vision; it must be a God's dream and goal. True leader stands with them until they achieve the goal of God. His servant Moses was so faithful to God, but God didn't let him go from a rebellious people. if leader abandoned people because they do not follow the leader, it is betrayal of the sacred vocation. The spiritual leader knows that their leadership depends on God. So he did not satisfy to lead them to God's given direction but leader wants to accomplish God's actual goals for this generation through the leader. (II Corinthians 5:10-11).

IV. Conclusion

 * Moses was a gifted, well-trained person, but his true greatness was probably due to his personal experience of and relationship with God. This former stammering murderer understood his preservation and destiny as coming from the grace of a merciful Lord who had given him another chance. Moses had an understanding spirit and a forgiving heart because he knew how much God had forgiven him. He was truly humble because he recognized that his gifts and strength came from God. Because of the uniqueness of his situation, Moses had to function in a number of roles. As God's agent in the deliverance of the Hebrews, he was their prophet and leader. As mediator of the Covenant, he was the founder of the community. As interpreter of the Covenant, he was an organizer and legislator. As intercessor for the people, he was their priest. Moses had a special combination of gifts and graces that made it impossible to replace him. Although his successor, Joshua, and the priest Eleazar, the son of Aaron, tried to do so, together they did not measure up to him. Later prophets were great men, who spoke out of the spirit that Moses had, but they were not called to function in so many roles. As tradition claimed, he was indeed the greatest of the prophets, and, as history shows, few of mankind's great personalities outrank him in influence. I found out that spiritual leadership comes out from when we cultivate an intimate relationship with God.