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EggShells Part 4: Egg-X-it Wounds
7 Possible Responses from Leadership
Any transition creates both challenges and opportunities for leaders left behind.
If they regret you leaving, do not take this in a negative way.
It means they valued you and your contribution.
If they criticize or
1. Favor
Superior who gives freedom to leave, support, encouragement
Ex.
Moses’ father Jethro
2. Friend
Peer who gives perspective and encouragement when leaving
Friends provide: fellowship, perspective, value.
Ex.
Jonathan helped David know when to leave and how to leave
3. Free
Superior who gives freedom to leave.
Ex.
4. Fear
Superior who is afraid of you or your potential response This may be justified or unjustified.
How we leave determines whether or not their fears were groundless.
If we leave criticizing them as we go, their fears were justified.
They may be afraid of our potential success if we stay or go- so base your decision on the leading of God and not fear of leaving or staying.
Ex.
Egyptians fearing Israelites would leave
5. Fiend
Superior who distrusts you
Ex.
Saul jealous of David being praised
6. Foe
Superior who fears you, distrusts you and actively opposes you
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Saul, Pharoah
Egg-X-cellence
The crucial factor in a transition is to let your behavior be defined by God, not your previous leaders.
You must do what is right whether they do or not.
If you do, God will bless and vindicate you in time.
If you do not, you will damage relationships and your own reputation.
There is something beautiful and heroic about a person who chooses to bless those who curse them.
There is something undeniably unhealthy about any person who rants and criticizes everyone they worked for before.
7. Fathers VS Labans
Fathers birth us, raise us, invest in us and prepare us for our destiny.
Fathers provide a place, a purpose and provision.
-Place: God prepared the garden.
A place where they were welcomed and accepted.
Where they could grow, love, live in safety and peace.
-Purpose: rule the earth, subdue it.
A job, a role, responsibility.
-Provision: all they needed, and when they sinned- again all they needed
Labans see our potential and use us for their benefit.
Labans demand the authority of a father without providing the spiritual covering.
Work for Laban.
Learn from Laban.
Leave Laban when God calls, when your debts are paid, when your family is in jeopardy.
Do not look to Laban as a spiritual Father.
God can train you and prosper you in Laban’s household.
But Laban’s household will never be home.
You will never be unconditionally accepted.
Your place will always be contingent on your performance.
In a home, you belong.
Your place is based on relationship.
In Laban’s house, your place is only based on your performance.
Even Laban’s daughters were viewed as property to be traded for Jacob’s profitable service.
Laban does not serve the Lord, but will honor your relationships with the Lord and seek to exploit it.
Witchcraft and idolatry are means of attempting to control and manipulate spiritual forces to accomplish what humans wish to accomplish.
It is trying to harness the supernatural to the will of flesh.
A right relationship with God will never function in this way.
We should never seek to subject God’s power to our will.
Rather we seek to subject our will to God’s plan and purpose, depending on Him to utilize His power to accomplish those things that we cannot.
Looking to Laban as a Spiritual father will result in defining our worth according to our performance.
This is perhaps the greatest tyranny of all.
Our value becomes tied up in what we perceive Laban thinks about us.
COMPARE JACOB VS LABAN
Fathers define us, refine us, direct us.
Labans use us and exploit us.
Fathers birth or adopt us.
Laban's hire or enslave us.
Fathers give to us.
Laban's pay us.
Fathers provide us an inheritance.
Laban's provide us a contract.
Fathers bless and send us to build our own families.
Labans criticize and control us, claiming our property and accomplishments as their own.
(If you have labored for the Lord, this is disheartening but not devastating.
If you have labored for man, this is devastating.)
It does not matter how much you do for a Laban, they will never send you off well.
They will always feel entitled to more from you.
They would leave you empty-handed, cheated out of what is yours and claim that all you have is theirs.
Jacob had just deceived his father to obtain his brother’s blessing.
A father will always bless you when you leave- even if they don't approve of the decision to leave.
They will never send you away empty handed.
Labans are motivated by pride.
They feel entitled.
No amount of service will ever be enough.
They will always be resentful.
They would take years of service and still send Jacob away empty handed if it were up to them.
Laboring for Laban’s will never result in praise or appreciation.
Don't wait for it.
Do what is right despite the injustice.
Fathers talk to us.
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