Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

I'm Sochie Dixon.

I'm looking forward to sharing Joe's story with you in today's Our Daily Bread devotional reading,

Working Together.

Joe worked more than 12 hours a day, often without taking breaks. Starting a charitable business

demanded so much time and energy that he had little left to offer his wife and children when he

got home. After the toll of chronic stress landed Joe in the hospital, a friend offered to organize a team to help him.

Though he dreaded giving up control, Joe knew he couldn't keep up his current pace. He agreed to

trust his friend and God as he delegated responsibilities to the group of people they chose together.

A year later, Joe admitted that the charity and his family could never have prospered

if he'd refused the help God had sent him.

God didn't design people to thrive without the support of a loving community. In Exodus 18, Moses led

the Israelites through the wilderness. He tried serving God's people as a teacher, a counselor,

and a judge all on his own. When his father-in-law visited, he offered Moses' advice.

You and these people who come to you will only wear yourselves out, said Jethro in Exodus 18.

The work is too heavy for you. You cannot handle it alone.

He encouraged Moses to share the workload with faithful people.

Moses accepted help and the whole community benefited.

When we trust that God works in and through all his people as we work together, we can find true rest.

Today, find true rest. Today's our daily bread devotional scripture reading is from Exodus chapter 18 verses 13 to 23.

The next day, Moses took his seat to serve as judge for the people, and they stood around him from morning till evening.

When his father-in-law saw all that Moses was doing for the people, he said,

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