Monday, April 23, 2012

Balancing Honor wth Responsibility in Leadership

Numbers 7:11: "And the Lord said to Moses, "They shall offer their offerings, one chief each day, for the dedication of the altar".

This passage makes me think about the place of honor that God has given to husbands in marriage in Ephesians 5:23-33. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior".  However that privilige doesn't come freely, it comes with a weighty responsibility. Look at how Paul describes the wives' responsibilty to submit to and respect their husbands in just two verses, whereas he takes almost ten to eleven verses to describe the responsibilty of husband, which include dying for their wives. In the same way the chiefs of the houses of Israel were called to lead by giving a generous and special offering from their own treasure. They were called to lead by example with their own lives. I bet they were the first ones to go our to battle.

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