Who I Am In Christ Devotionals

  “What you’re doing is not good,” Moses’s father-in-law said to him. “You will certainly wear out both yourself and these people who are with you, because the task is too heavy for you. You can’t do it alone.” Exodus 18:17‭-‬18 CSB Humble Listening Believers take advice from godly people. That is the norm. Or it should be anyway.  Knowing the difference between good, godly advice and rotten, stinking, destructive counsel takes wisdom. I’ve listened to both kinds in my life. I’ve been blessed or paid the price.  How can I position myself to recognize good advice when it comes? And how can live a life where I’m not so full of myself when the advice comes that I actually take it? This passage in Exodus shows Moses’s father-in-law, Jethro, giving him advice, advice he sorely needed.  Now let’s think about this: Moses was a leader of an estimated 2 million (or so) people counting men, women, and children. He led this huge group of people out from underneath the tyrannical hand of a Pharaoh