Be the Leader You Were Meant to Be by LeRoy Eims

Author:LeRoy Eims
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biblical Leadership
Publisher: David C Cook
Published: 2012-05-24T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

HOW TO GET MORE DONE

It’s a common problem: There’s more to do than there is time to do it. The stay-at-home mother, the executive, the assistant, and the college student all face it. Projects to finish—tests to study for—reports overdue. The calendar and the clock: nag, nag, nag. If only I had more time.

Let me share a little secret with you that could change your life.

DO IT NOW

A simple idea is illustrated in the book of Numbers in the Old Testament. We look in on the main character and what do we find? A busy man. Moses had the job of moving thousands of people out of slavery in Egypt across the burning sands of the Sinai to the Promised Land. And they were a troublesome bunch—always doing something stupid and incurring the disfavor of the Lord. Time and again they put God’s patience to the test. And Moses was forever trying to straighten things out. He constantly endeavored to get across lessons in faith and duty and obedience and courage and purity of life. He was the leader of God’s training program in the wilderness.

The people continually complained about lack of food or water, or the lack of variety in their menu. They murmured against Moses himself. They said the real reason he led them out of Egypt was to kill them. Or that he had married the wrong wife. Or all this talk about God was just Moses’s means of making himself a big man. The problems seemed endless. Moses had his hands full.

And then one day out of the clear blue sky, the Lord dropped more work on him.

The LORD spoke to Moses in the Tent of Meeting in the Desert of Sinai on the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites came out of Egypt. He said: “Take a census of the whole Israelite community.… You and Aaron are to number by their divisions all the men in Israel twenty years old or more who are able to serve in the army.” (Num. 1:1–3)

Now, let’s assume that Moses is human—like us. What would your reaction have been? Mine would have been something like “Count everybody?! Good grief, do You know how long that will take? I’ve got my hands full now! Look at all I’m doing: responsible for the physical and spiritual welfare of all these people—that alone keeps me going from morning till night—plus the fact that I am writing the Bible! I’m a busy man with more to do than there’s time for as it is. And now I’m supposed to count everybody?”

Sound familiar? But hold on to your hat, and look at Moses’s response: “Moses and Aaron … called the whole community together on the first day of the second month. The people indicated their ancestry by their clans and families, and the men twenty years old or more were listed by name, one by one” (vv. 17–18).

Did you notice when the job was given? “On the first day of the second month.

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