"Ordination"

 Exodus 32:29

Then Moses told the Levites, "Today you have ordained yourselves for the service of the Lord, for you obeyed him even though it meant killing your own sons and brothers. Today you have earned a blessing."

 

Today you have ordained yourselves. Today you have earned a blessing. These are the  results of obeying the Lord by sacrificing all that is close to you.

 

Family is important. Parents. Siblings. Marriage. Children.  All important things are in the development and function of peoples lives. However, God wants to be first in His peoples lives. 

 

Ordination is not something that you just pick up out of seminary, nor bestowed upon you because you served your time in a local church as a congregant for a lengthy period of years. Ordination is costly and that is why few will obtain it or if by chance have obtained, may never really experience the true blessing in lue of it.

 

Though a person may be a faithful church goer, giver, and possibly even serve in a convenient ministry in favor of their schedule, without the sacrifice of things or people closes to them the blessing that comes with ordination can not be obtained.  As believers we must learn to trust in God. Put Him first. Then, and only then, will we learn true contentment.

 

Again these relationships are not at all wrong but the true influencer needs to be the Holy Spirit. Allow God to have the last word. Jesus said it best "not my will be done but thy will be done". Nobody wants to lose their security and comfort of closeness, but in the process of ordination all becomes a sacrifice, a fragrance; a fragrance before the Lord.

 

It's not easy but He never said it would be. I thank my God for supplying all my needs and showing my wife and I the true blessing of ordination.