Exodus 18:13–23
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in an age that worships the indispensable man. We see it in the cult of the CEO, the celebrity pastor, and the centralizing politician. The assumption is that if you want something done right, you must do it yourself. The result is a world filled with two kinds of people: the exhausted and the exasperated. The leaders are exhausted from trying to do everything, and the people are exasperated because nothing gets done efficiently. This is not a sign of godly leadership; it is a sign of prideful mismanagement. Moses, the great lawgiver and deliverer of Israel, had fallen into this very trap. He wanted to bring God's justice to the people. He had created a system where every single dispute, from a stolen goat to a marital squabble, had to come across his desk. The result was a judicial bottleneck of epic proportions, a line of supplicants stretching from morning to evening.