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This week's question:

Moses, meaning "Because I drew him out of the water" (Exodus 2:10), a Hebrew, born of the tribe of Levi, yet raised by Pharaoh's daughter who requested a nurse from the Hebrew women at the suggestion of Moses sister, who ran and got her mother to care for him and she was paid wages to care for her own son while in bondage in Egypt (Exodus 2:1-10)! Although he was raised and taught by the Egyptians, and had great opportunity as Pharaoh's son, he rejected it and tried to help when he saw how an Egyptian was beating a Hebrew. Moses rose up and killed him and buried him in the sand (Exodus 2:11-12), but he was witnessed by another Hebrew, "And he went out the next day, and behold, two Hebrews were fighting each other; and he said to the offender, 'Why are you striking your companion?' But he said, 'Who made you a prince or a judge over us? Are you intending to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?' Then Moses was afraid, and said, 'Surely the matter has become known.' When Pharaoh heard of this matter, he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the presence of Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian; and he sat down by the well." (Exodus 2:13-15) He then helped a priest of Midian's daughters drive off some shepherd's who tried to take their water and then watered their flocks and was invited by the priest to stay and then gave his daughter, Zipporah, as his wife and she bore him a son (Exodus 2:16-22). While pasturing one day, Moses saw a burning bush but the bush was not consumed, and when he went to see it, the Lord spoke to him and asked him to deliver his people from the hand of Pharaoh, but Moses had many excuse of why he was not the man for the job, however, after many convincing proof's by God and selecting Aaron as Moses' spokesman, he relented to the work (Exodus 3 & 4).

That brings us to our question, "Who suggested to Moses that he appoint judges?". So, at the age of eighty years and after the ten plagues were cast by God upon Egypt, including the last plague of the death of the first born, "Now it came about midnight that the Lord struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the first-born of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the first born of cattle. And Pharaoh arose in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians; for their was a great cry in Egypt, for their was no home where their was not someone dead. Then he called for Moses and Aaron that night and said, 'Rise up, and get out from among my people, both you and the sons of Israel; and go, worship the Lord, as you have said. Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and go, and bless me also." (Exodus 12:29-32) And the people did get up to leave, having lived in Egypt 430 years, and they even plundered the Egyptians (Exodus 12:36-40). When the Israelites get to the promised land they send in spies who report back that the land is inhabited by giants and could not take the land (with the exception of Caleb and Joshua) and so God makes them wander in the wilderness for forty years, one year for each day the spies spent searching out the land. While enforcing the Law given to Moses by God as well as disputes between the people from morning till evening.

So then, for the answer to our question we turn and read, "Then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat a meal with Moses' father-in-law before God. And it came about the next day that Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood about Moses from the morning until the evening. Now when Moses' father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he said, 'What is this thing that you are doing for the people? Why do you alone sit as judge and all the people stand about you from morning until evening?' And Moses said to his father-in-law, 'Because the people come to me to inquire of God. When they have a dispute, it comes to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and make known the statutes of God and His Laws.' And Moses' father-in-law said to him, 'The thing that you are doing is not good. You will surely wear out, both yourself and these people who are with you, for the task is too heavy for you; you cannot do it alone. Now listen to me: I shall give you counsel, and God be with you. You be the people's representative before God, and you bring the disputes to God, then teach them the statutes and the laws, and make known to them the way in which they are to walk, and the work they are to do. Furthermore, you shall select out of all the people able men who fear God, men of truth, those who hate dishonest gain; and you shall place these over them, as leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties and of tens. And let them judge the people at all times; and let it be that every major dispute they will bring to you, but every minor dispute they themselves will judge. So it will be easier for you, and they will bear the burden with you. If you do this thing and God commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all these people also will go to their place in peace.' So Moses listened to his father-in-law, and did all that he had said." (Exodus 18:12-24)

So there we have the answer to our question, as the one who gave Moses advice on judges was none other than his father-in-law, Jethro!

May we use our abilities that God has given us, but realize we should not spread ourselves so thin that we wear ourselves out and be less effective in our secular as well as spiritual life so we can be better prepared for life!