Exodus 18:21
Question
Like Moses, we can wear ourselves out if we try to be everything to everyone. How can you use Jethro’s counsel to Moses in Exodus, and President Eyring’s counsel that “helping may require more than what one person can do” to guide you in your service to others?
Scripture
21 Morever thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, rulers of tens.
Exodus 18:21
Quote
With all your differences in personal circumstances and past experiences, I can tell you something of what lies ahead for you. As you keep the faith, you will find yourself invited by the Lord often to serve someone in need when it will not seem convenient. It may appear to be an unpleasant and perhaps even impossible task. When the call comes, it may seem you are not needed or that someone else could easily give the succor.
Remember that when the Lord lets us encounter someone in distress, we honor the good Samaritan for what he did not do as much as for what he did. He did not pass by on the other side even though the beaten traveler on the road was a stranger and perhaps an enemy. He did what he could for the beaten man and then put in place a specific plan for others to do more. He did that because he understood that helping may require more than what one person can do.
President Henry B. Eyring
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