Organization drives some people nuts - Numbers 1-4

Well, if you are the basic "type A" personality and highly motivated by organization and structure you will love this section of reading. Of course you also have to love reading name after name after name, but it is the structure and organizational aspect of it that catches my attention. I wouldn't say I am that structured, although I learned in my educational process that if you want good grades, teachers love organization. If you want a raise, your boss probably rewards organization and structure. If you want to watch something on TV at a certain time there is probably someone in charge of the organization and structure (of course, that is why someone invented TiVo). Man seems to have something in his spirit that structures and organizes things. As I write this I am waiting for a couple to show up who want me to perform their marriage ceremony. We are going to meet to "plan" their wedding. One of the two of them will be energized by structure and one of them probably won't be. In these chapters we see that God is a structured and organized being. Since He created us we have that from Him. We are made after His likeness. So, despite the fall, we have some semblance to organizational things. That will drive some people nuts but that doesn't change the fact that we reward those in our society who are highly structured. You can't find too many companions that don't have structure. In this section God organized the tribes and told them where He wanted them to camp, who was to lead them and who was in charge of the tabernacle. God planned it and expected the nation to carry it out. The only thing worse than organization is when when you have it and someone ignores it. God wants us to appreciate His organization an structure. We can be creative beings and fly by the seat of our pants and that, too, is after the creative image of God. In God's world these two things co-exist. In our world they are often at odds with each other. Go out today and enjoy the structure God has given us. The sun will come up and set at a particular time. It is structured by Him to do so.