Numbers 1:6-10: in context

When God orders a census of Israel in the wilderness, he does not simply hand Moses a clipboard and tell him to count a nation by himself. He names helpers, one from each tribe: Shelumiel for Simeon, Nahshon for Judah, Nethanel for Issachar, Eliab for Zebulun, and so down the list, a head of a father's house appointed to stand for each tribe and share the work. It reads like a dry roster, but the shape of it is the message. The load of leading and counting a whole people is deliberately distributed, spread across twelve named men, so that no one person carries all of it.

This is a pattern God keeps establishing. Earlier, Moses's father-in-law had watched him try to judge every dispute in Israel alone from morning to night and told him plainly, what you are doing is not good; you will wear yourself out, for the thing is too heavy for you; you cannot do it alone. Appoint others. Later, when the burden of the people grew too great, God would take some of the Spirit on Moses and put it on seventy elders to share it. Here at the census the same wisdom is quietly at work: name the helpers, divide the responsibility, let each tribe have its own representative bearing a portion. There is a kind of pride that insists on doing everything oneself, and it usually collapses under its own weight. God's way is to name the twelve and share the load.

God did not make Moses count the nation alone; he named a leader from every tribe to share it. What am I insisting on carrying by myself that was always meant to be shared among named others, and am I too proud to name them and hand them a portion?