WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 2023
/Wednesday, March 15, 2023
Lead as I Lead
1. READ: Exodus 2: 11 – 19; Acts 7: 23 – 29. Although Moses desired to identify with the Hebrew people of his birth and had compassion for them in their suffering, the fact is he grew u pin Pharaoh’s palace. What are the indications that the Egyptian worldview I including Pharaoh’s brute-like style of leadership – may have become more a part of Moses the realized?
2. READ: Exodus 3: 1 – 11. When God first met Moses at he burning bush and commissioned him to speak to Pharoah and lead the Hebrews out of Egypt, how did Moses respond?
a. Is this the same response you would have expected from Moses before he spent forty years tending sheep in the desert? What do you think changed?
b. Why do you think Moses responded this way?
3. READ: Exodus 3: 13 – 20; 4: 1 – 9. What similarities do you see between the way a shepherd guides a flock – leading by walking ahead of them and calling to the sheep to show them the way – and the way God instructed Moses to confront Pharaoh and lead the Hebrews out of Egypt?
a. What was the primary way Moses was to lead on God’s behalf?
b. When was Moses to take action and demonstrate God’s power?
c. How was Moses’ staff (the symbol of a shepherds leadership) to be used, and whose power did it represent?
4. Even though Moses had a sensitive, compassionate heart that longed for justice, he did not learn overnight how to lead as God leads. That took time – not just time spent as a shepherd, but time spent observing God’s example, time spent listening for God’s voice, time spent getting to know God and his ways. Read the following passages and note the characteristics of Moses’ relationship with God that would have helped him to know God and become a shepherd like him. READ: Exodus 4: 19 & 20;
Exodus 5: 22 – 6: 1; 17: 4 – 6; Exodus 33: 7 - 11 & 13; Deuteronomy 34: 10; Psalm 77: 20