Tag: Every Role is Important to God - Numbers 18-20

Numbers 18:3-5

They shall keep guard over you and over the whole tent, but shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary or to the altar lest they, and you, die. They shall join you and keep guard over the tent of meeting for all the service of the tent, and no outsider shall come near you. And you shall keep guard over the sanctuary and over the altar, that there may never again be wrath on the people of Israel.

Tag:  Every role is important to God

The tribe of Levi was to "keep guard" over all things "sanctuary."   It was their role to make sure no one entered a place that was reserved for only the priest and/or high priest.  Some had high exposure roles and some had less notable responsibilities.   But, each had a role to play.  Man is impressed with roles, God is not.   Note what David says in the Psalms:

Psalms 84:10

For a day in your courts is better

than a thousand elsewhere.

I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God

than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

David knew there were lessor roles that some played.   God simply wants obedience and faithfulness in our roles.   We might think the role we play should be bigger or more important, but God puts us where He wants us.   That is how God puts the Body of Christ together: 

1 Corinthians 12:18-25

But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. If all were a single member, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.

The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.