ORDER MY STEPS IN THY WORD

God’s Order for LeadershipThe Transfer of LeadershipNumbers 27:18-23:Israel may [should] be obedient.” Joshua wasAnd the Lord said unto Moses, Take theeMoses’ “heir apparent.” He was installed whenJoshua the son of Nun, a man in whom isMoses “laid his hands upon him, and gave him athe spirit, and lay thine hand upon him;charge” before all the people as the designatedAnd set him before Eleazar the priest, andleader.before all the congregation; and give him aWe have seen how this call to overall leadershipwas not suddenly thrust upon Joshua. Joshuacharge in their sight.And thou shalt put some of thine honourhad been maturing and preparing for thatupon him, that all the congregation of theposition since his youth when he had helped spychildren of Israel may be obedient.out the Promised Land. So when Moses died,And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest,there was no lapse in leadership for the childrenwho shall ask counsel for him after the judg-of Israel. All preparations had been made, andment of Urim before the Lord: at his wordthe people understood what God’s and Moses’shall they go out, and at his word they shallcommands were.come in, both he, and all the children ofIsrael with him, even all the congregation. Deuteronomy 34:5-10:And Moses did as the Lord commandedSo Moses the servant of the Lord died therehim: and he took Joshua, and set him beforein the land of Moab, according to the wordEleazar the priest, and before all the congregation:And he [God] buried him in a valley in theof the Lord.And he laid his hands upon him, and gave himland of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but noa charge, as the Lord commanded byman knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.the hand of Moses.And Moses was an hundred and twentyyears old when he died: his eye was not dim,Thus Joshua was designated by Moses, beforehis death, and by the high priest as the one towhom “all the congregation of the children ofnor his natural force abated.And the children of Israel wept for Moses inthe plains of Moab thirty days: so the days116117