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THE IMPORTANCE OF HOW Read: Numbers 4:17-32 Bible in a Year: Amos 1–3; Revelation 6 Assign to each man his work and what he is to carry. Numbers 4:19 While attending Bible college, my friend Charlie and I worked for a furniture store. We often made deliveries accompanied by an interior decorator who talked with the people who had purchased the furniture while we brought it from the truck into the house. Sometimes we had to carry the furniture up several flights of stairs in an apartment building. Charlie and I often wished we had the decorator’s job instead of ours! During Israel’s 40 years of wandering in the wilderness, three clans from the priestly tribe of Levi—the Kohathites, Gershonites, and Merarites—were assigned the job of transporting the Tent of Meeting (tabernacle). They put it up, took it down, and carried it to the next place, then repeated the process again and again. Their job description was simple: “Carry the things assigned to you” (see Num. 4:32). All of us can choose our attitude toward the tasks we're given. I wonder if these “custodians” ever envied the “clergymen” who offered sacrifices and incense using the holy articles in the sanctuary (vv. 4-5,15). That job must have looked much easier and more prestigious. But both assignments were important and came from the Lord. Many times we don’t get to select the work we do. But all of us can choose our attitude toward the tasks we’re given. How we do the job God gives us is the measure of our service to Him. Father in heaven, our work in life often causes us to wonder if we are accomplishing anything worthwhile. Give us eyes to see the importance of the tasks You have given us so that we may honor You by the way we do them. Humble work becomes holy work when it’s done for God. 
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After many years of various jobs many exciting I settled down and got married. I went back to my printing trade which I had hated and left but because of the money and a new family I stuck with it. I learned what I call "The discipline of monotony." Each pay day I rejoiced, I paid off 2 houses in 20 years (ex got the first). Routine is in every job, for 6 months I did mechanics, there was oil changes and tyre rotations ... I was a boatman and diving office on a research station, there was maintenance and filling of dive bottles .... made ultralight aircraft, had to cut & bend chromemolly steel etc. I've been blessed with many jobs in an era where there was always work, in every job there's routine, but if it pays the bills. Praise God.  Judgment Day will be interesting - and all paths lead there.
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