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Lead Like Moses Devotional 9

by David Joynt on June 20, 2022


EXODUS 2:21-22 | 21 Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave Moses his daughter Zipporah in marriage. 22 She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, “I have been an alien residing in a foreign land.”

There are many ways God brings us to maturity. One way is through our family roles and relationships. There is much to learn, both positive and negative by watching how leadership works in our homes.

Moses now gets to observe a regular family and to begin his own, becoming for the first time a husband and a father. The clan he joins in Midian provides a safe place and a hideout away from   Egyptian searches and also the security of work and relationships.

Moses also gets to lead his own small family and to learn how to serve and help a new wife and young son. His son’s name means “alien,” in recognition of Moses’ experience of finding welcome and family as a stranger.

Have family roles deepened your growth as a person and a leader?

Tags: leader, family

About the Author
David Joynt

Dave Joynt began his service as a pastor at Valley Presbyterian Church in Paradise Valley, Arizona in September 2014. This meant a move away from the Northeast, where he has a long history, growing up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and then serving congregations in Delaware and New Jersey for a total of 23 years.

Dave was nurtured in a great church in Bethlehem where his parents, Anne and Carey, served as elders. He graduated in classics from Lehigh University where his Father taught, and then from Oxford, where he met his wife Julia. Ordained in 1988, he completed a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1993.

He and Julia have a son, Tristan, and a daughter, Madeleine.

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