A Gifted Man

This is the second post in a series called “Leadership in the Crucible”, a profile of leaders trained for a special anointing.  

I went to high school with a guy who was just a natural.  He was a multi-sport athlete, good looking, and smart.  He just had it all.  And he knew it.  Girls loved this guy.  We all have these types in our high schools.  But we know a good percentage of them struggle later in life.  In the movie Friday Night Lights, the star athlete Boobie Miles is injured in a career threatening injury and life stops for him.  If you have ever seen the movie, you remember this touching scene (forgive the brief language).

Moses was that type of person.  And he was anointed and protected.  The first part of Moses’s life, you would almost swear was on the path to greatness.  He had it all, like Boobie Miles.  A complete natural.  Further, the Bible tells us in Acts 7:22 that he received all of the benefits of being educated as an Egyptian aristocrat.  It says he was “a man of power in words and deeds”.  Yet, he had not forgotten his roots.  He knew that he was a son of Israel.  He knew that he was lovely in the sight of God.  He knew he had been anointed for leadership for a purpose.  You know guys that know they are good.  They know that they have special talents, skills and abilities.  Moses wasn’t cocky – in fact he was an admirable man.  And as we see in the next post, he is even contemplating the big picture.  God wants to use him in a special way. 

Each of us are special creations made in God’s own image for a purpose.  God wants each of us to be used in that special way for him.  We naturally want to be part of that larger purpose.  Who wouldn’t?  God wants us to be a part of something big.  He really does – don’t you believe it?  I do.  I greatly anticipate how God will speak to me next, how he will use me.  Moses was indeed anointed and I think you and I are as well.

But as Boobie Miles, our anointing is not based on any special gifts God gives us – the gifts are the means to the end.  It is God who works in us and through us so that He can receive the glory.  Moses needed to learn that lesson.