INSIGHT FOR TODAY WITH CHUCK SWINDOLL.
Chuck Swindoll’s ‘Insight for Today’ Daily Devotional is here. Insight for Today provides practical, relevant insight into today’s issues with Biblical principles applied. This devotional will help you connect with God on a daily basis, while also equipping you with a Bible-based approach to transforming your everyday life. Insight for Today” is a daily devotional written by Chuck Swindoll.
The Topic of Chuck Swindoll Daily Devotional 5 Th September 2023 Is “A Shepherd’s Heart “.
Scriptures: Numbers 27:12–23
Then Moses said to the LORD, “O LORD, you are the God who gives breath to all creatures. Please appoint a new man as leader for the community. Give them someone who will guide them wherever they go and will lead them into battle, so the community of the LORD will not be like sheep without a shepherd.” (Numbers 27:15–17)
TODAY’S INSIGHT – 5TH SEPTEMBER 2023.
Moses asks for a man “who will go out and come in before them, and who will lead them out and bring them in, so that the congregation of the LORD will not be like sheep which have no shepherd” (v. 17). In other words, “Lord, we need a man who realizes he must be in touch with the people before he can minister to them. He needs to be a people person.”
Moses was saying, “These people don’t need a mystic. They don’t need a man preoccupied by his love for research, as important as that may be. These folks don’t really need a super-efficient CEO or a brilliant organizational genius. They need a shepherd. They need a man who knows people, who will minister to people, understand people, and know how to guide people.”
In whatever capacity you might minister—as a Bible teacher, as a student preparing for the ministry, as a woman of God ministering in your area of giftedness—your ministry is primarily people, not shuffling papers, not crunching numbers, not making phone calls, not writing letters, not planning programs, or noodling over strategies for the next decade. Of course, all of those things must be done. I must sign and/or write an average of forty to fifty letters a week and get involved in planning sessions too. Administrative details need to be handled. (As few as I can get by with!)
Do you know the most common thing I hear from individuals just beginning to come to our church? They want very much to get to know some of us on staff, and they’ll say, “You don’t know me, but I come on Sunday to hear you preach.” And they almost apologize, as if to say, “Hey, I’m sorry to take your time, but I just want to shake your hand.” I go out of my way to say to each one, “You are as important as anybody else in this entire church. There is no insignificant member of the family of God.” I don’t say this to make a good public relations statement or to make a good impression. I say it because I believe it—because it’s true. Whoever you are, whatever you do, you are special before the God who has chosen you
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