This chapter talks about the visit of Jethro (the father-in-law of Moses). His primary purpose was to bring Moses' wife and children to him. He was indeed a wise man. He did not keep his daughter and grandsons to himself, which I suppose most grandparents would do. He knew very well that sending them to Moses would mean he would no longer see his daughter and grandsons. Besides, the future of Moses was uncertain at that point. Would it not be safer to keep his daughter and grandsons to himself? Yet that was not his consideration. His consideration was simply that it was appropriate to keep a family intact. That fulfills the teaching of the Bible that the two shall leave their fathers and mothers and become one. It is the institution of marriage that no circumstances should change it. I am sometimes quite astonished to find so many people live away from their family simply because they may earn a better living. I hope they all learn from Jethro, a non-Jewish believer.

Of course, Jethro's next most significant contribution was to advise Moses to dedicate works to others. There is much to learn from there, but I wish to point out just one fact: the idea of discipleship. Instead of training everyone equally, we train different people with different abilities differently. As a result, each may grow according to their own pace. This is not being biased or unfair, which sometimes haunts our conscience. This is simply systematic.

May God help us to be wise in executing God's words.