PLEASE READ THIS FIRST: Exodus 17-18

What do you sense the Lord saying to you in this passage?

“The work is too heavy for you; you cannot handle it alone.” (Exodus 18:18)
From the very beginning, it has not been good to work alone (Genesis 2:18).
Yet Satan finds ways to divide us, so that he can defeat us (Genesis 3:1,6).
The division that results from ‘the fall’ continues to divide and defeat us.
Consider all the divisions that we struggle with: male vs female, old vs young.
Leader vs follower, celebrity vs commoner, rich vs poor, black vs white.
Conservative vs liberal, racial, sexual, national and denominational divisions.
Within the church where unity ought to be found in Christ, we are as divided.
Like Israel, we are entering a battlefield, yet we cannot make it work together.
Instead of helping – like Aaron and Hur helped Moses – we attack and undermine.
“You cannot handle it alone”, and yet we act as if we can, and isolate.
In the local church we see some demanding more yet doing less, while others burnout.
We cannot handle it alone, and yet Satan finds ways to burden the few with the many.
What if we saw Jesus as our Moses, and worked together under him, with him and each other?
Instead of thinking that only we can do it right, we need to admit we can’t handle it alone.
PRAYER
Lord, as one that is burning out myself, and yet seeing more and more disagreement and division around me, I cannot help but say, ‘what we are doing is not good!’