Bible Tuesday - David Part 12

And it was told King David, “The Lord has blessed the household of Obed-edom and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of God.” So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom to the city of David with rejoicing.

2 Samuel 6:12


David tries again.

If our stated goal is to discover things that make David 'a man after God's own heart' then we cannot overlook his dogged determination.  David just doesn't give up.  And I gotta tell ya, if God had struck down one of my men while moving the ark, I think I probably would have decided that God didn't want the ark moved.  But David seems to have no such reservations. 

Then David summoned the priests Zadok and Abiathar, and the Levites Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab,  and said to them, “You are the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites. Consecrate yourselves, you and your brothers, so that you may bring up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, to the place that I have prepared for it.   Because you did not carry it the first time, the Lord our God broke out against us, because we did not seek him according to the rule.”  So the priests and the Levites consecrated themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel. And the Levites carried the ark of God on their shoulders with the poles, as Moses had commanded according to the word of the Lord.

1 Chronicles 15:11-15

You'd be amazed at how often just doing stuff the way God told you to do it works out. We live in a world surrounded by people who refuse to acknowledge God...until the poop hits the fan.  Then those same people will shake their fists at the God they claim doesn't exist and ask "Why?!?!?!"