Here is something I read this morning from my email. I get a daily devotional from Pastor Raul Ries, the service is free and anyone can sign up for it.

What is says is awesome and I feel like it ties along with what I posted yesterday about being discerning on the people that serve at the church and are leaders.

Spiritual Leaders
“ ‘How can I [Moses] alone bear your problems and your burdens and your complaints? Choose wise, understanding, and knowledgeable men from among your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.’ ”
Deuteronomy 1:12-13

Notice the qualifications for godly leaders— wise, understanding and knowledgeable people. Each tribe was to choose men from amongst themselves, within their tribes.

What is he telling us? We are not to choose people who we do not know. People have to prove themselves before we can choose them as leaders.

In the ministry, you really have to know who people are, not just while they are in church, but outside of church. That does not mean you appoint leaders who are your best friends. It has to be based on qualifications—spiritual qualifications.

The blessings of God come only when someone is tested. When the real test comes, are they able to endure, so God can really use their lives, fully and completely?

Whether in ministry or business, we must choose leaders who have proven themselves to be men and women of integrity, in any situation.

The three most important ingredients in Christian
work are integrity, integrity, integrity.
—Charles Colson—