Good Morning Friends,
“They set the ark of God on a new cart and
brought it from the house of Abinadab. Uzzah and Ahio, sons of Abinadab, were
guiding the cart with the ark of God on it. David and the whole house of Israel
were celebrating with all their might before the Lord, with songs and with
harps, lyres, tambourines, sistrums and cymbals. When they came to the
threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached out and took hold of the ark of God,
because the oxen stumbled. The Lord's anger burned against Uzzah because of his
irreverent act; therefore God struck him down and he died there beside the ark
of God.” (2 Samuel 6:3-7)
David wanted the ark of God in his new city,
Jerusalem. Until this time it had been kept at the house of the high priest.
David had a new cart built just for the purpose and oxen to pull the cart. Uzzah
and Ahio walked along with the ark. As they were walking, the oxen stumbled and
it looked as if the ark might be thrown off the cart and damaged. Uzzah reached
out to protect the ark.
God had made it clear that no man was ever to
touch the ark. When it was moved, as it was often during the days wandering in
the desert, the Levites put long poles through rings on the ark and four men carried
it.
Two things were wrong when David moved the ark.
1. A new method was chosen for moving the ark. It
was easier to put the ark on a cart than to have it carried by four Levites.
They could move faster. But that was not the way God had instructed for the ark
to be moved.
2. Uzzah didn’t trust God to take care of the
ark. When it was in danger, he reached out to steady the ark. He thought
protecting the ark was more important than following God’s instructions.
Those same problems arise in our lives. We ave
a better way than God’s idea. We may do it out of good motives and with worship
… but if we ignore God’s way we do so at great risk. Sometimes we think God
needs our help to protect His work. We take matters into our own hands.
God knows what He is doing and He wants us to
listen to Him and follow His instructions.
His, by Grace, Steve
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