All right, all right, join the Journey family, friends, and guests. You're listening to Join the Journey

podcast with your host, Emma, daughter. Thanks for joining. Today, we're reading numbers 4 through 6,

but more specifically, we're focusing on numbers 6, answering the question, what's a Nazarite vow,

why should we care, and what does it mean for us today?

Sometimes different jobs have different requirements or rules associated with them. For example,

if you're a police officer, you wear a special uniform and drive a special vehicle that identifies

you as such. If you're a referee, you wear a black and white striped shirt. Both of those roles,

a referee and a police officer, call to mind a specific uniform. Or on the flip side, if you saw

the uniforms on the hanger at a store, you'd instantly think about the occupation associated

with them. Now, if I mentioned a male in the military, or as I went to school at Texas

A&M, a male in the Corps of Cadets, a specific uniform, and a specific haircut would come to mind.

All the men were required to have very short hair, and the women, if they had short hair, they could

wear it short, or they were to wear their hair in a slicked back, geled, low bun that sat just underneath the back of their cap.

The Corps of Cadets at the University of Texas A&M is a large segment of the student body that for the most part is going to be deployed or commissioned for government or military service and one branch

or another, Air Force, Army, Marines, etc. And the haircut and the uniform, as well as the patterns of

life actually lived by these students, not walking on the grass, going on group runs, mandatory

morning workouts, marching into the football game, all make it very

easy for any average person to identify a member of the Corps of Cadets. Even if you didn't go to A&M,

if you were to step on the campus, you would notice that they're very clearly set apart by not

only their appearance, but also their actions.

Now, unlike the police officer or the referee, these students, they didn't really have an off time.

They were always required to obey these regulations, whether they were going to a ministry event after school hours in the evening, they still had to wear their uniform.

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