- Ark of God represents God’s presence.
1Ch 13:14 and the ark of God remained with the family of Obededom in his house three months. And the LORD blessed the house of Obededom, and all that he had.
David want the ark of God back to his land and well take care off. They know that the ark of God built as per commanded by God during Moses time and have to be kept in sacred tent. But during Saul reign, the ark had not been take care and abandoned. Many agreed.
When ark of God was kept in the house of family of Obededom in 3 months, the household was blessed. Not only bless the family but all what they had. Finance, joy, peace, love, health and all they had: household items which they already had blessed multiply, their needs such as grain and grain field, flour, foods blessed multiple, their animals blessed with good health and all that they had being blessed.
When David and Israelites carried or move the ark of God to his land, they dance, sing and play music before God.
1Ch 15:28 Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and harps.
There is celebration when they brought the ark of God. As we read through the book, we can see that David and Israelite are singing, dancing and burn offering unto the Lord before the ark of covenant of the Lord. In His presence, there is such a tremendous joy and peace and celebration. And as we read, the Levites are assigned to minister before the Lord with all the skills and gift they have.
BUT Who and How?
First – we need to accept the ark of covenant of the Lord. Though it had been a mistake by David when they carried the ark, but they have the intention or desire to have that ark with them. They accept it and so do the family of Obededom...to accept it in their family… =) and God bless them...
When we invite God in our “house” a.k.a heart, we don’t just invite Him and sit. When we feel the presence of somebody in ourlife meaning we can see and feel the doing of the person or that somebody in our life. Such as their goodness that we can’t forget and we can’t compare to other. Their talk, word or doing that is no compare to others.. When we miss the person, meaning we will miss the presence of their talk, walk, words or even goodness in our life.
That is how we should let God’s presence or supposed to be in our life. We don’t just invite Him in..but we also let God’s presence fill our heart and life by His words, talk, walk, goodness and everything else. We let Him to move and we enjoy His where about in our life! That is basically the meaning of His presence in our life. When He is around in our life, we feel all what He did. And He blesses our life by what He did! Awesome is He…
Than how is our reaction? Our reaction is that when we feel His presence and all His goodness, we can’t stay still, BUT we are extremely filled with joy and filled with excitement! Like what the Levites doing, they minister before the Lord, they sing for His goodness, they make music and they burn offering before the Lord. They even shout, dance and great joy fill them because of their excitement for God’s presence. They did it all in front of ark of covenant of the Lord.
That’s why when David and his commanders carry the ark, they carry it with rejoicing. I believe that is how and what it’s supposed to be when we carry the presence of the Lord in our life. We should be rejoicing. You know why? Because when we have God’s presence with us, He who is we believe almighty, He is creator and He is with us as we carry Him; why we worry? He with us, and He knows our life, problem and our struggle..
1Ch 15:25 So David and the elders of Israel and the commanders of thousands went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from the house of Obed-edom with rejoicing.
(To be continue on next post..another point..)
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