Zadok and comfortable benches

As I went to my teaching on Tuesday, I arrived earlier than the rest, affording me the opportunity to arrange the benches for our three hour session together. Even though these are the flat, wooden, no back variety as I was arranging them I found myself considering the comfort rating of each bench as I carefully chose upon which one I would perch myself for the next several hours. The irony of this is that none of them are comfortable for that long whether they be wide or narrow, high or low after three hours of it the intermittent pain and tingling and eventually numbness set in. It struck me that so often we are all looking for the comfortable bench upon which we can sit. I guess this is the antithesis of what the descendents of Zadok did. I came across them today in Ezekiel 44. I had not taken much notice of him prior to this. Yet, today that short passage where God tells Ezekiel that it is only Zadok's descendents who will serve because they were faithful when everyone else fell away into the "comfort" of comformity struck a deep cord with me. They rose to the occasion instead of looking for a "comfy" bench. Consider today Zadok and his descendants. May it be said of us as well that we rose to the occasion of faithfulness in the way of Zadok's progeny.