Tuesday, March 31, 2015
TEXT: NUMBERS 8:20-26
Key Verse: “And after that went the Levites in to do their service in the tabernacle of the congregation before Aaron, and before his sons: as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did they unto them” (Numbers 8:22).
God has work for you to do. So urgent is work in the Lord’s vineyard that once you meet up the call-up qualifications, you are required to start doing the work allocated to you immediately. To delay or give excuse when there is call to follow our Lord’s example of sacrificial service can disqualify you.
Jesus said, “No man having put his hands to the plough and looking back is fit for the kingdom of God” (Luke 9:62). The man whom the Lord addressed primarily here wanted to bid farewell to his people at home. To another who thought burying his father was more demanding than the call to service, the Lord corrected him right on the area of setting priorities: “Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God” (Luke 9:59,60).
Jesus was not doing something strange. He was following the pattern of His Father in the passage we are studying today. Immediately the Levites were purified, they went straight into the business of service to the Lord.
When a person is genuinely born-again, he is instantly qualified to work for God. He is expected to engage selflessly in the urgent service of saving souls. He must be like the Levites after being purified for the work in the tabernacle.
The King’s business is urgent. “Say not ye, there are yet four months, and then cometh the harvest Behold I say unto, lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already for harvest” (John 4:35).
There is shortage of labourers but excess loafers. And the solution is, “Pray ye therefore, the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest” (Matthew 9:38). Stop being a loafer; be a labourer in God’s vineyard. He will reward you more than you expect.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: NEHEMIAH 11 - 13
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: The gospel work demands urgency from saints.
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