"It is appointed unto man once to die.... Enoch was translated that he should not see death...."
(Heb. 9:27; 11:5)
Enoch did not choose to be the exception to the rule. He was strictly God's choice. And so it is throughout the scripture. David when in need, along with his band of followers ate of the shewbread which was not lawful, but for the priests only. But God made an exception in his case because of the legitimate need. And what of Hosea marrying an harlot, which was forbidden, but in this case God wanted to illustrate something to His people Israel, so He makes an exception to the rule? The list goes on and on. It's good to always remember — God wrote the rule Book! Therefore, He only has the authority to make or permit the exception.
Most all of us will never be in the exception category. It's a humbling thing to wake up to the fact that you are and always will be, just one of the gang; if that is too crude for the soft-skinned, you can insert the word “group.”
There is a great danger in a man or woman thinking and acting as he or she must be the exception to the rule. Peter thought he could never do what others could, thus imagining himself the exception. Those who do so are prone to take liberties not permitted them by God. Saul of old found this to be true, and he lost it all for his refusal to obey like all others.
In my way of thinking doing exceptional things for God is a vast cry from making oneself an exception in the things of God. The first in the Bible to attempt the latter went by the
name Lucifer!
name Lucifer!
By An Old Disciple
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