Part of God’s call to leadership is to accept your new identity—a new definition of who you are and how you will live. Learning to lead begins with accepting your identity as a leader, even though you may not yet know all it will entail from the beginning. Modern readers often view the lives of biblical characters backwards—from the end of the story instead of the beginning. We assume too much about their understanding of God’s initial work in their lives because we have the benefit of spiritual