Today's Reading
Numbers. At this time in their history, Israel was nomadic. When they moved from place to place, great care was taken to protect and preserve the Tabernacle and its contents. It hit me today how "unfair" it seems to us that God gave specific duties to each of the clans. Most of us have grown up with the idea that we can do anything we choose with our lives. When they were born, they were pre-assigned responsibilities and couldn't do something different. Actually, that is consistent with much of the world throughout history.
Those of us who have grown up with the freedom to make many of our own life decisions struggle to imagine living like this unless we look at it another way. When we begin to know our life's purpose, it is invigoratng. We could choose to run from it like Jonah or embrace it like Isaiah ("Here am I, send me!"),but knowing our purpose changes everything.
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