In Exodus 18:1-12, Moses’ father-in-law Jethro came to meet him during the Exodus in the wilderness. Moses told him about all that God had done (:8). Jethro rejoiced (:9) and blessed God (:10) and offered God a sacrifice as a result of Moses’ testimony (:12). Verse 11 says that Jethro exclaimed: “Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all the gods.” Moses’ testimony of what God had done for them had a dramatic effect on his relatives.

It should be the same way with us, when God works in our lives. Like Moses, our family will see and hear and be impacted by the testimony of what God is doing in us. In fact, if our own relatives — the people who often know us better than anyone else, and who are not fooled by our “Sunday religion” — are not impacted by what God is doing in us, we need to take a sober look at the reality and integrity of what we claim is our walk with God!