Levite Work

Num 3:13-26          10/14/2017

The Levites might be thought of as the first professionals amongst the children of Israel.

Culture.

It comes from the part of community that doesn’t involve subsistence. Such people are removed from the daily pressure of assuring enough food to eat, enough shelter to protect.

With this, a freedom to serve – a freedom to create a different kind of value.

Mediation in the relationship between the community and God affords this freedom to serve and grounds the culture in the knowledge of God.

Mediators, like priests, dwell in the boundary between the ordinary and the divine – between what is eternal and what is utterly transient and invariably dynamic. Curiously, it is out of this boundary between the eternal and the changeable that flows music and literature and art and scientific knowledge.

The real possibility of our lives is somehow here. In the heritage of a God-aware culture that is so rich that it drives us to use our lives – to contribute our part- to this extraordinary flourishing.

Excellence is the watchword. Whatever you do today – make the commitment to do it with excellence.