How To Be A Follower!
And Jacob said to Joseph, “Are not your brothers
feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, I will send
you to them.” So Joseph said to him, “Here I am.”
Genesis 37: 13
It has been said that before one can become a good leader,
he must become a good follower. Everybody is responsible
to someone; everybody is given directions to be followed.
The family is the place where those lessons must be first
learned.
Joseph became a great leader in Egypt, second only to Pharaoh
in authority. How did Joseph rise to such a prominent position as
a leader?
It was God’s blessing above all. But it was also the fact
that Joseph learned to honor his father, Jacob, as a young man—
lessons that guided his rise to prominence in Egypt.
Joseph wasn’t perfect as a young man, but he did honor his father.
When he was seventeen years old, Jacob sent him on
a mission to
find his brothers who were tending the flocks at Shechem.
Joseph replied, “Here I am”—or “I’m ready”; “I will go”;
“Very well.” No questions, hesitancy, and no discussion.
When his father called him, Joseph obeyed.
When God calls us, our response must be
the same: “Here am I! Send me” (Isaiah 6:8).
"Beware of reasoning about
God’s word—obey it!"
Oswald Chambers
