“But Moses did not give any to the Kohathites (Cohens), because they were to carry on their shoulders the holy things, for which they were responsible.” Numbers 7:9
‘The Day’ had arrived. That which I hate had come upon me! The tick of the clock has now forced me to do the thing that I don’t WANT or LIKE to do. After owning an old rental property for 30 years, it is now being sold. And before THAT wonderful day, which will be this week, I have to sort through the junk! I can put it off no longer!
We had bought the house to live in over 30 years ago. After we bought the house we are now in, I had the bright idea to keep it as a rental! Something that I knew NOTHING about! Let me tell you from EXPERIENCE… the horror stories of rental property are REAL. When folks left, the left me their junk. When a small back house had been practically destroyed, I just threw everything in THERE! And I mean EVERYTHING!
We spent a lot of time going through the stuff, much of it ours. Some things had valuable and some were sentimental. We stacked it in piles that determined its ultimate destination. Then I had to MOVE it… and STORE IT SOMEWHERE ELSE! As I was sorting AGAIN, for the 3rd time, I realized I was sorting through things I had never SEEN before, or hadn’t TOUCHED in YEARS! But now, I was appointing MY precious TIME in order to assign the stuff VALUE!
In the Old Testament priesthood, there was a lot of STUFF needed to run the Tabernacle where the offerings and fellowship with God took place. The regular priests had oxcarts to load their stuff up and haul around. The Cohens, on the other hand, the HIGH Priests, had no such luxury. They had to CARRY their holy things, the things for which they were responsible, on their own shoulders! Which has provided me a lesson… a week too late!
Remodeling, moving, or selling a property ALWAYS requires sorting through SHTUFF! A friend of mine gave me that word and I like it! It is such a good word. it needs no definition! Everybody’s SHTUFF as different value. For example, I found my old router lettering kit in a custom box I built 35 years ago when I had a wood shop. Since I will NEVER have a wood shop again, what do I DO with it? And the list went on and on!
The old saying that ‘You can’t take it with you,” is NOT true. Christians will INDEED take our reward and relationship that we earned and built HERE, with us, to be with Him THERE! But it hit me hard that some of the SHTUFF that “I” think is important… ISN’T… with HIM! And THAT is what He is trying to tell me through my frustration!
I am wasting time! God is calling me to the IMPORTANT! And as I think about what is going to happen with all the SHTUFF in MY house, I have decided I am not going to do ANYTHING. I’ll just leave it for my ‘kids’ to sort through when I am gone! You know… something to remember me by! Just for a laugh! But until then… I am going to plan to spend more time on holier things.
Please pray for Bill Brigham… after tests yesterday he was scheduled for open heart surgery this morning at 11am. TY
