Proper and Adequate Leadership

Nehemiah was a proper pattern of leadership whom God used to rebuild the city of Jerusalem and to reconstitute the nation of God's elect. Seventy years of captivity in Babylon was a generation old defilement with the sins of Babylon with its culture, language and all of a human society. Though the identity of the children of God remains unique and unchanged, it for sure had been contaminated with foreign elements. Therefore after the return of the diaspora, to reconstitute the children of God as they originally were in all aspects, intrinsically and extrinsically, a proper and adequate leadership was needed. And Nehemiah was such a one.

Nehemiah 13:

9 Then I gave commands, and they purified the chambers; and I returned the vessels of the house of God, the meal offering, and the frankincense there.

13 And I appointed treasurers over the storehouses, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah; and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah; for they were counted faithful, and it was their charge to distribute to their brothers.

21 But I testified against them and said to them, Why do you spend the night in front of the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time on they did not come on the Sabbath.

30 Thus I cleansed them from everything foreign. And I appointed duties for the priests and the Levites, each in his work,

Similarly, today as the Lord is recovering His chosen people into His heart's desire to build up the Body of Christ, there for sure, is a need for a proper leadership to carry out the work of rebuilding and reconstitution. Though the leadership in the New Testament may not definitely be a person or group of persons per se, those who indeed have the ministry of the age and the anointing of the Lord for the goal of God's building is the leadership. Only under such proper and adequate leadership can the Lord recovery His heart's desire. 

In the same manner, in every service pertaining to the building up of the Body of Christ, there is a divine leadership.Such leaders represents God to carry out His economy. And under such proper and adequate leadership there is a proper order in the Body and the building work can be accomplished.

Christ alone is the unique Leader, and His leadership in expressed through whom He anoints and appoints among His members in the Body in His humanity to carry out His work. To recognise and submit to such divine anointment is a blessing; not a rulership or heading over as a tyrant but for the sweet coordination and order in the Body. 

The Lord truly enlightened me as I studied this portion of the Word. Though we are not in an inorganic organisation, organically we need the order through proper and adequate leadership, not of human hand but of God. 

Lord, preserve me in and under Your sovereignly arranged leadership; yet not to be blind-led by man-made erroneous hierarchical leadership.