Exodus 18:24–27
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in an age that despises hierarchy, distrusts authority, and champions a flattened, egalitarian mess as though it were a virtue. At the same time, we are crushed by the top-heavy tyrannies that this very attitude creates. They demand a centralized, bureaucratic leviathan to solve every problem, from potholes to pandemics. This is true in the state, and it is tragically true in the church. We funnel every decision, every dispute, every question to his desk, until he becomes the sole arbiter of all things great and small. We do this in the name of honoring his gifts, but it is actually a form of spiritual laziness on our part and a recipe for burnout and disaster on his. Moses, the meekest man on earth, had fallen into this very trap. He was attempting to be the beginning and end of all justice for a nation of over a million people.