David arranges for the ark to be returned to the City of David. However, it didn't make it there. They moved the ark on an oxen cart with two men guiding it, Uzzah and Ahio. Uzzah reaches up to steady the ark. Uzzah is killed. Sounds like pretty stiff punishment. He was only trying to help. The oxen had stumbled. He was only trying to steady the ark. He only touched the ark. Why was he killed? Suppose it has anything to do with God's commandments about who was to carry the ark, how they were to carry the ark, etc.???
Ps 18:35b
you stoop down to make me great.
Think about the significance of that verse. You (God) stoop down to make me (put your name there) great. God certainly did stoop down when He came to earth to die for our sins so that we could be made great. Wow!
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It must be that the human mind is so powerful in it's 'own' thinking that it must always try to out-do God. 'Hey God, look at me. I have found a better way to do something.' That must have been similar in the thinking of the people of Judah as they were transporting the Ark of the Covenant. They either didn't check with God's word or worse ignored it all together, thinking that they had a better idea with the new skills and knowledge they had acquired since the Exodus.
Isn't it amazing that we still ignore God's Word? The natural state of fallen man is to do it "my way" all the time. It is only the Holy Spirit that can change our attitude.
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