Follow The Prescribed
Order
For because ye did it not at the first, the LORD our God made a breach
upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order (1 Chronicles 15:13).
God wants you to carry out His
instructions according to the prescribed order. To do otherwise is to walk
against His perfect will, like what happened to David and the children of
Israel when they didn’t follow His prescribed order in moving the ark of God
into the city of David.
David got a new cart, and two men,
Uzzah and Ahio, rode in the cart together with the ark as they drove it to the
city of David (2 Samuel 6:3).
Then, something significant happened.
The oxen pulling the cart stumbled and the cart shook. Uzzah tried to stop the
ark from falling and when he did, he died instantly. David, baffled and afraid
at what had happened, wouldn’t bring the ark into the city anymore. They had to
keep it in the house of a man named Obed-edom. Interestingly, while the ark of
God was in Obed-edom’s house, he and his family prospered exceedingly.
David couldn’t but wonder why the same
ark that Uzzah touched and died would bring so much blessing to another man and
his family. Then he found out why, as he searched the Scriptures. In 1
Chronicles 15:2, God’s prescribed order was that only the priests
(the Levites) should carry the ark of God. That was God’s plan.
David, realizing their error, said to
the priests and elders of Israel, "For because ye did it not at the first,
the LORD our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the
due order" (1 Chronicles 15:13). How important this is! Uzzah could have
been spared, had they followed God’s prescribed order.
It brings to mind the Lord’s admonition
to Moses while he was to set up the Tabernacle; He said to him, "See…that
thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount"
(Hebrews 8:5). There’s a pattern; there’s a way; there’s a prescribed order in
doing the things of God; follow it and you’ll experience His grace and
blessings in your life and service of God.
Prayer
Dear Father, I thank you for revealing
your perfect will and desire to me through your Word and by your Spirit. Now
and always, I serve you, not on my own terms, but in accordance with your Word.
I walk in the light of your Word, and therefore experience greater
manifestations of the Spirit, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
Further Study: Proverbs 19:20;
Proverbs 4:13
1 Year Bible Reading Plan : Hebrews
10:19-39 Ezekiel 3-4
2 Year Bible Reading Plan : 2 Peter
3:1-18 Ezekiel 43
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