Your Daily Slice

Nisan 8

Service

“And He Himself gave some … to the work of SERVICE …” (Eph 4:11-12 ISR, emphasis mine)

“His intention was the perfecting and the full equipping of the saints (His consecrated people), [that they should do] the work of MINISTERING …” (Eph 4:12 AMP, emphasis mine)

When a young adult joins any branch of the armed forces, that individual is required to go through a period of training, where they are taught the basic skills needed for their time in the military.  Those that qualify may go on to more intense training, further equipping them for the specialized positions they will be in.  Additional in-depth knowledge of the “tools of their trade”, the weapons required of them, is also taught, and taught again, that each one of these enlisted persons has much more than a passing knowledge of which end of a rifle is which.

So also it is with our different agencies of law enforcement.  Most states in our nation have their own form of “Police Academy”, where men and women learn from those with more knowledge and experience what is what.  And let us never forget the motto of our police force:  To Protect and to Serve.

As it is in the natural, so also it is in the spiritual:  for those of us who are walking this Torah walk, we too are learning from those with more knowledge and experience.  Does this make our “instructors” any better than we are?  In one sense, it does, for they have already travelled this road that we are just embarking upon.  The accumulation of all of the wisdom, knowledge, and understanding that those found in the five-fold ministries have stored up deserves all of our respect and honor.

If our “instructors” are doing their job, then we too are being taught to “protect and serve”.  Torah is all about the sanctity and preservation of life, and loving our neighbor as ourselves (Lev 19:18).  Only as we absorb the instruction and teachings that are needed are we able to go and do what our Creator desires for us to do:

“Clean and undefiled religion before the Elohim and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.” (Jam 1:27 ISR)

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