News is out. There will be a number of changes of appointments in this territory and officers will be moving in December and January. Change always brings mixed feelings. My wife and I have had many changes of appointments during our active service locally and overseas. Looking back I can see all the appointments were in the right order - one appointment prepared us for the next. God is indeed wonderful.
Another thing I've discovered - no one is indispensable. There is a time to take up an appointment and there is a time to leave it - all in God's time. We leave the appointment, the work still goes on under the leadership of another. Take up the appointment with grace and with grace hand it to another.
We have been studying Joshua and tomorrow we come to the penultimate lesson in this series. Moses under God's guidance chose Joshua as his assistant. Later God instructed Moses to commission Joshua as his successor. Joshua had played a key role in the Exodus from Egypt. As Mose's successor, he led the nation into the Promised Land.
I've been going through my notes for tomorrow and reflecting on the this great man.
There was a time for Moses to take on the task, then there came a time when he must hand the responsibility to another. He did it with grace. Many accomplishments have been started by someone with great ability. Then the day comes when he has to let go and the fulfilment of that dream becomes the responsibility of his successor. Let us all help to train leaders and remember to pass on the baton to another gracefully when the time comes.
How true... we are not indispensable. God's work will continue in His own plan and will. We are His instruments and vessels that He chooses for certain function and times. May His purposes be found in me His vessel making sure it is clean in the inside first, is my prayer.
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