Orderly Manner
If we go to 1 Chronicles 23 (the whole chapter), we will see that David did everything in an orderly manner.
He got up early in the morning. Remember what they say, “the early bird catches the worm.”
He chose his men for the maintenance and the oversight of the temple very carefully from the different tribes of Israel. You and I need to be more attentive to the things that we do, not only for the Lord but in secular life as well. If there is one thing that farming has taught me over many years, is that if you start early in the morning, normally by nine o’clock when we go back to the farmhouse to have breakfast, we have done the most important part of the work. Now I know that doesn’t apply to every profession and way of life because I know there are a lot of people that are working night shift.
Routine is very important to run a successful operation. Even when it comes to livestock management, we found our animals become quite stressed out, if we had to continually move them and herd them. When they are left in a nice lush field of grass, you can actually see them putting on weight, lying down under the trees, chewing the gut, totally relaxed. The same thing applies with people, we can’t keep on moving people, it unsettles them. We must do everything in an orderly manner.
As a young farmer I worked for a very successful and progressive farmer. He came from England; he came from Yorkshire. He was a very disciplined man within himself, he had a razor-sharp mind. We were running a very big operation and he would ask me questions, sometimes I would do a thumb suck and he would catch me out and would be extremely angry with me. He taught me to carry a notebook in my top pocket at all times and when ever he asked me a question, “How many bags of fertilizer in that field? How many cattle in that herd?”, I would be able to look up my notebook and give him the exact answer. If we are going to succeed in life, we need to have the facts and the figures at our fingertips.
Then lastly, giftings. We must use people in their giftings. Not everybody can preach, not everybody can ride a horse, not everybody can bake a cake, but there are people that have got specific giftings. I know this, that David in that chapter chose different tribes, different families in different areas. It’s no good trying to push a round pen through a square hole, it doesn’t work, it just causes friction and eventually breaks. Make sure that you have got the right people in the right positions, then everything will work beautifully. Our God is a God of order.
Jesus bless you
Angus and Jill Buchan