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First Chronicles chapter 15, verses 13 through 15.

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. There is so much to be learned and

prayed through. And these three verses. So this story is

recounting when David was bringing the ark to Jerusalem and we remember what happened the last

time people were carrying the ark and it started to fall and

Usa stuck his handout to catch it and immediately died. And everyone, of course, was overwhelmed,

awed in fear of God at that moment in the days to come to where they left the ark right there.

But then David goes back and he says, okay, we need to bring the ark, but he goes back to God's word

and how God had prescribed the ark to be carried. And it was supposed to be carried by the Levites

in a certain way. So by certain people in a certain way, the language is according to the rule.

And David looks back and he says, we did not seek God according to the rule, according to his word.

And so what he does is he calls the priests and the Levites together and says, this is how it needs to be carried.

And the Levites carry their ark of God on their shoulders according to the Word. And as we read these verses, we all need to

pause and ask in our lives, what are we doing or what are we not doing that is out of accord with the word of the Lord to pause and examine

our thoughts, our desires, our words, our actions, our interactions, and our relationships,

and our work, and in everything, everything in the church are we living thinking

desiring speaking loving serving acting according to the rule according to the word of the lord and to take very seriously any ways in which we are doing any of

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