​Day 148 – May 28, 2021

​Day 148 – May 28, 2021
Scriptures: 2 Samuel 4-6, Psalm 58
 
One of the peculiar passages of the Bible is found in 2 Samuel 6. It is the story of Uzzah, who reaches out to stabilize the Ark of the Covenant and dies as a result.
 
Why does God strike Uzzah dead?
 
The Ark was designed to be carried on poles. It wasn’t meant for a cart! Proper protocol wasn’t being followed, which caused the Ark to become wobbly, and led to disastrous consequences.
 
We are in a season of Bible reading that is filled with betrayal and death. There is civil war because of the vacuum of power left by Saul death. Things are not totally settled at all, even when David is implemented as the rightful king. He reigns for forty years, but it is not ever easy.
 
If you remember, not too long ago, Samuel advised against a king to reign over Israel. (1 Samuel 8:10-22)
 
Despite Samuel’s warning and laying out the consequences, the people said, “No, give us a king.”
 
Well here it is, a deviation from God and the consequences are great and many. So much death at the hands of kings and their armies. The Israelites are more like the nations than they realized or intended. The Ark of the Covenant, wobbly on a cart is one instance of a small deviation and its consequences. Comparatively, we get Saul, and now David, and one generation after the next, a deviation from the laws of God. There is one King, and it is to be the Lord.
 
We are in the opposite trajectory of this as Christians. We seek the Lord Jesus and crown Him as King over our lives. 
 
Jordan