"Dear friend, I hope all is well with you and that you are as healthy in body as you are strong in spirit" (3 John 1:2).

As believers we have a personal God who is interested in every detail of our lives, for a good purpose. A good example is seen through Moses who was often compelled to take on extra work, perhaps feeling a tinge of guilt about things left undone. One day as he presided over multiple cases brought to him through the day his father in law Jethro happened to visit. But because of all these cases Moses couldn't attend to him properly.

Jethro observed his son in law at work and felt something wrong. If he continued at that pace he would drop dead soon. When Moses finnaly had time for him, he expressed a concern, "What is this you are doing for the people? Why do you alone sit as judge, while all these people stand around you from morning till evening?" (Exodus 18:14).

Poor Moses he thought he was the man. Moses answered him, “Because the people come to me to seek God’s will. Whenever they have a dispute, it is brought to me, and I decide between the parties and inform them of God’s decrees and instructions" ( vv 15).

Then, "Moses’ father-in-law replied, “What you are doing is not good.  You and these people who come to you will only wear yourselves out. The work is too heavy for you; you cannot handle it alone"  ( vv 17-18). The solution was to delegate. He advised him to "select capable men from all the people—men who fear God, trustworthy men who hate dishonest gain—and appoint them as officials over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens...That will make your load lighter, because they will share it with you. If you do this and God so commands, you will be able to stand the strain, and all these people will go home satisfied"  (vv 17-23).

Moses listened and took in a good advice. He would live to a good 120 years, and because God had ministered to him to take good care of himself. So, how about you? Are you wearing yourself out with work! Perhaps God is saying something how to be more effective.

Prayer today: Lord Father God of Abraham, maker of heaven and earth, today I pray to look after my self well, that I might be more effective in serving you, this I pray in Jesus’s name.