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[2.] Though Moses was advanced to great honour, yet he did not therefore take his case and throw upon others the burden of care and business; no, he thought his preferment, instead of discharging him from service, made it more obligatory upon him. Those think of themselves above what is meet who think it below them to do good. It is the honour even of angels themselves to be serviceable.
[3.] Though the people had been provoking to him, and were ready to stone him (Ex 17:4), yet still he made himself the servant of all. Note, Though others fail in their duty to us, yet we must not therefore neglect ours to them.
[4.] Though he was an old man, yet he kept to his business from morning to night, and made it his meat and drink to do it. God had given him great strength both of body and mind, which enabled him to go through a great deal of work with ease and pleasure; and, for the encouragement of others to spend and be spent in the service of God, it proved that after all his labours his natural force was not diminished. Those that wait on the Lord and his service shall renew their strength.
15 And Moses said unto his father-in-law, because the people come
unto me to inquire of God:
16 when they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between
one and another, and I do make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.
17 And Moses’ father-in-law said unto him, The thing that thou doest
is not good.
18 Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with
thee: for this thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone.
The great prudence and consideration of Jethro as a friend.
1. He disliked the method that Moses took, and was so free with him as to tell him so, Ex 18:14,17,18. He thought it was too much business for Moses to undertake alone, that it would