What Job or Task Has God Given you

 

1 Chronicles 23:7-32

 

April 11, 2023

 

Reading these verses, a non-Jewish person such as most who go by the title of Christian may skip over, but you will miss the application that God is establishing for His people.  Each one in Aaron and Moses family were given a job or task that only they could do, and that included the tribe of the Levi’s.  “Aaron was set apart to dedicate the most holy things, that he and his sons forever should make offerings before the Lord and minister to him and pronounce blessings in his name forever.   But the sons of Moses the man of God were named among the tribe of Levi.”

 

This was the calling for the tribe of Levi; ^“For David said, “The Lord, the God of Israel, has given rest to his people, and he dwells in Jerusalem forever.  And so, the Levites no longer need to carry the tabernacle or any of the things for its service.”  For by the last words of David the sons of Levi were numbered from twenty years old and upward.   For their duty was to assist the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the Lord, having the care of the courts and the chambers, the cleansing of all that is holy, and any work for the service of the house of God.  Their duty was also to assist with the showbread, the flour for the grain offering, the wafers of unleavened bread, the baked offering, the offering mixed with oil, and all measures of quantity or size.  And they were to stand every morning, thanking and praising the Lord, and likewise at evening, and whenever burnt offerings were offered to the Lord on Sabbaths, new moons, and feast days, according to the number required of them, regularly before the Lord.   Thus, they were to keep charge of the tent of meeting and the sanctuary, and to attend the sons of Aaron, their brothers, for the service of the house of the Lord.”

We the Church, once more not a building where the Church comes to do corporate worship, but people who have by the faith God has given them, know that Christ is living in them.  Blaise Pascal was 100% on target when he made this quote: “Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, that unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”  Also, “All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.”  Lastly, if we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?  You may find it of interest that Blaise Pascal lived from 1623-1662 and he was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen.

Once again, I am reminded of my dad who had a love for history, and would often say we learn nothing from history are we would not keep repeating it.

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice