Today, I am reading and commenting on  1 Chronicles 13-16.

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When David first tried to bring the ark of the covenant to Jerusalem things went wrong.  David, and all of Israel, were celebrating, praising, and worshiping God.  Yet, when the oxen pulling the cart they were using to transport the ark stumbled, Uzzah reached out to steady the ark and was struck down.  There is an important lesson for us here.  David and all of Israel were joyously praising and worshiping God, but tragedy still struck.  We can be worshiping God and things can go wrong.  David took this as a lesson from God that he should not bring the ark of the covenant into Jerusalem, but that was not the lesson God intended for him.  David learned that day to truly fear God so that when he later finished bringing the ark into Jerusalem he was careful to transport it as God had instructed.   And when he did so, David celebrated with even more wild abandon.   We need to be careful to do the things God calls us to do in the way in which God instructs us to do them.

I love the song of thanks which David appointed to be sung on the day when the ark was finally brought into Jerusalem.  As I read it today it really struck me.  I’m not sure I am going to be able to put what God spoke to me from it into words, but I will try.  David tells us to remember and make known what God has done, the miracles He has performed and the judgements He has passed down to us.  In particular we should make Him known to the peoples of the world.  Let us seek the Lord and rejoice.  We need to both worship the Lord and fear the Lord.  I will praise the Lord and seek to tell everyone of His wonders.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.