Doing It God’s Way
4 “The service of the Kohathites at the tent of meeting concerns the most holy objects. … 17 Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron: 18 “Do not allow the Kohathite tribal clans to be wiped out from the Levites. 19 Do this for them so that they may live and not die when they come near the most holy objects: Aaron and his sons are to go in and assign each man his task and transportation duty. 20 The Kohathites are not to go in and look at the holy objects, even for a moment, or they will die. Leviticus 4
The Kohathites were a clan of Levites assigned by God to carry the items in the Tabernacle, and in the “Most Holy Place” of the Tabernacle, whenever they were required to move. God was concerned enough to detail to Aaron just how they were to do it. God even placed a burden on Aaron and his sons to make sure that the Kohathites were not killed in the process. You see, they were not allowed to go into the Most Holy Place. There were not even allowed to see the items in the Most Holy Place that they were to carry! God assigned the task of carrying the objects to them, but Aaron and his sons were to go into the Most Holy Place and prepare all the objects, and deliver them – ready to carry – to the assigned member of the Kohathiite clan for that particular task. If they disobeyed in any way, God will kill that individual.
Wow. Talk about serious! Obeying God’s commands was serious business for the Israelites. They did not have a lot of latitude in their service. How about us? How about today? How about those of us who consider ourselves Christians, serving Jesus in His Church? Do we obey Him to the letter? Do we place His instructions first in our lives? Do we take the time to find out how He wants us to do things? I think we often feel good about ourselves if we can just figure out what He wants us to do. I think we often neglect to find out how He wants us to do things – or when!
God is into details. He is in charge, and likes to be obeyed fully. HE wants us to do His Will His Way and in His Time! Our challenge today is to start finding out how and when He wants us to serve HIm!
