DECEMBER 15, 2015
The Importance
of How
Assign to each man his work and what he is to
carry. -Numbers 4:19
Read:
Numbers
4:17-32
While attending Bible
college, my friend Charlie and I worked for a furniture store. We often made
deliveries accompanied by an interior decorator who talked with the people who
had purchased the furniture while we brought it from the truck into the house.
Sometimes we had to carry the furniture up several flights of stairs in an
apartment building. Charlie and I often wished we had the decorator’s job
instead of ours!
During Israel’s 40
years of wandering in the wilderness, three clans from the priestly tribe of
Levi—the Kohathites, Gershonites, and Merarites—were assigned the job of
transporting the Tent of Meeting (tabernacle). They put it up, took it down,
and carried it to the next place, then repeated the process again and again.
Their job description was simple: “Carry the things assigned to you” (see Num.
4:32).
I wonder if these “custodians”
ever envied the “clergymen” who offered sacrifices and incense using the holy
articles in the sanctuary (vv. 4-5,15). That job must have looked much easier
and more prestigious. But both assignments were important and came from the
Lord.
Many times we don’t
get to select the work we do. But all of us can choose our attitude toward the
tasks we’re given. How we do the job God gives us is the measure of our service
to Him.
Father in heaven, our work in life often causes us to wonder
if we are accomplishing anything worthwhile. Give us eyes to see the importance
of the tasks You have given us so that we may honor You by the way we do them.
Humble work becomes holy work when it’s done for God.
Source: Our Daily Bread 2015