How beautiful, radiant and unique, the coat of many colors would have looked on Joseph, the son of Jacob. Imagine the depth of vision, design, labor, expertise, dexterity and the time that would have gone into its making.
O, what a delight for the owner when he or she wears it. What joy and satisfaction for the maker? And the joy and the delight it gives those who look upon it.
Christian Leadership is like a coat or garment of many colors – Genesis 37:3
Why the Coat of Many Colors for Joseph?
a. Why did Jacob make a coat of many colors for Joseph? Why did he make it for Joseph alone?
b. How did he conceive the idea? Why so many colors and not a specific number of the colors?
c. Who made it for him? When he gave it to Joseph, what was he thinking about? How did Joseph receive it?
d. Would Joseph wear his other coats apart from his coat of many colors?
e. What did this coat bring to Joseph?
f. What was going in the minds of Joseph’s brothers as they took the coat off him?
g. What was going through the mind of Joseph’s brothers as they dipped this coat in the blood of a goat?
h. Were they qualified for this type of garment of many colors?
i. O, how Jacob must have received the coat now dipped in blood? Did he keep it? If yes, how?
j. Why was it not washed and given to another of the brothers, even Benjamin?
Christian Leadership is like this garment of many colors.
The Christian Leadership is like a bestowed spiritual garment of many colors. Imagine the preparation of the garment that covers all areas of life of the leader. Imagine the spirit and the heart of the leadership garment of many colors.
Imagine the vision, the ideas, the dreams, the love, the hope, the plans, the discipline, chastisements, and the power sown into the Christian Leadership Garment of many colors.
Moses was a type of leader that the Lord coated with so much unction, power, honor discipline, and glory. Remember that this same Moses had become a-nobody at the backside of the desert with pedestrian living.
The garment of leadership came upon him, and he became someone useable and then someone greatly used by God in leadership. Moses’ leadership typifies what Christian leadership is all about. There was no way Moses could have qualified for this but by the ministry of the leadership garment of many colors.
The garment is of the Lord, a type of call that is just of the Lord and not of Moses. The colors are all the graces, disciplines, wisdom, knowledge, understanding, the journeys, mountain climbing, the fasting, the writings and journaling. They speak of the visions, challenges and victories and giftings that the Lord bestowed upon Moses and made available to him.
What do the many colors stand for?
They are what the Lord has made available for your leadership, your gifts, your virtues, those appointed to lift up your hand. Where is your garment of many colors for this leadership? Is it on you physically and spiritually?
Moses by submission to God and accepting the garment of leadership became a unique and special leader. He has great encounters with the Lord, setting milestones, methodologies and directions. His garments of many colors of leadership were also Aaron, children of Aaron, Joshua, Caleb, Jethro, the 70, the Levites and much more.
There is a garment of many colors of Christian leadership, it is like no other leadership, where all depends on the leader so that the glory can be his. Joseph utilized this garment of many colors of leadership.
It is not just physical, but spiritual and in human forms. No wonder Joseph was the greatest Prime Minister the entire nation had ever had, under Pharaoh. Genesis 41:38-57.
David was a leader with a garment of leadership – just image the retinue of superlative categories of mighty men he had. Imagine the gifts of the spirit Peter and Paul had and exercised. With this garment of leadership colors, your responsibilities are great and on your own, you
will fail. You need the Lord daily, more than ever.
Noah took on this new garment of leadership with grace in Genesis chapters 6 to 8 we read all that the Lord was able to do through him.
Peter took on this garment in Luke 5:1-11, and by the grace of the Lord he could not put it off despite many attempts. Acts 5:15 records who Peter became for the Lord.
CONCLUSION
This garment of Christian leadership does so much to the leader and for the leader. Imagine the man that puts on the regalia of a masquerade in some cultures. He is said to have become a different man once the regalia is still on him.
Dear Christian Leader, put on and do not reject your garment of many colors.
