A Gift for Service!

Did you ever think of your ability to serve others as a gift from God?

Numbers 18:7(NKJV)

7Therefore you and your sons with you shall attend to your priesthood for everything at the altar and behind the veil; and you shall serve. I give your priesthood to you as a gift for service, but the outsider who comes near shall be put to death.”

Aaron was given the priesthood by God, not as a duty but as a gift for serving.  Serving who?  God and others.  When we serve others it allows them to see the love of Jesus shining through us which is part of our service to God.

OK, that is talking about Aaron and the priesthood but what does that have to do with us?

Hebrews 7:14-17(NKJV)

14For it is evident that our Lord arose from Judah, of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning £priesthood. 

15And it is yet far more evident if, in the likeness of Melchizedek, there arises another priest 

16who has come, not according to the law of a fleshly commandment, but according to the power of an endless life. 

17For £He testifies:      “You are a priest forever     According to the order of Melchizedek.” £

Hebrews talks about Jesus being a high priest in the order of Melchizedk.  Well once we accept Jesus we serve in the priesthood with Him.  So we too are offered that gift for service from God.

So the next time you are called to serve, do it with excitement and joy.  It's a gift from God to be called to do that!