Hey there and welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

Our reading titled, Serving for God's sake, was written by Leslie Coe.

When England's Queen Elizabeth passed away in September of 2022, thousands of soldiers were

deployed to March in the funeral procession.

Their individual roles must have been almost unnoticeable in the large crowd, but many

saw it as the greatest honor. One soldier said, it was an opportunity to do our last duty for

her majesty. For him, it was not what he did, but whom he was doing it

for that made it an important job. In the book of numbers, the Levites assigned to take care of the

tabernacle furnishings had a similar aim. Unlike the priests, the Gershanites, Kohathites,

and Mararites were assigned seemingly mundane tasks, cleaning the priests, the Gershinites, Kohathites, and Mararites were assigned seemingly mundane tasks,

cleaning the furniture, lampstands, curtains, posts, tent pegs, and ropes.

Yet their jobs were specifically assigned by God, constituted doing the work of the tavernacle,

and are recorded in the Bible for posterity.

What an encouraging thought. Today, what many of us do at work, at home, or in church,

may seem insignificant to a world that values titles and salaries, but God sees it differently.

If we work and serve for his sake, seeking excellence

and doing so for his honor, even in the smallest task, then our work is important because

we're serving our great God.

Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from Numbers chapter 3 verses 5 through 9.

The Lord said to Moses, bring the tribe of Levi and present them to Aaron, the priest, to assist him.

They are to perform duties for him and for the whole community at the tent of meeting by doing the work of the tabernacle. They are to take care of all the

furnishings of the tent of meeting, fulfilling the obligations of the Israelites by doing the

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