Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net.

Soaring verse that is to see use a reach out and touch the arc as it seems to be unstable and immediately God strikes him down.

Why? Why such an extreme punishment penalty for reaching out and touching the arc of God?

And there's a lot of background here that goes into this, both with the arc of God and this specific story.

But in essence, user and others around him, but he was the one who reached out and touched the arc of God.

We're treating the holy in a profane way.

They were not honoring God and his name, his presence as holy.

They were not living in fear of in proper reverence and awe of God.

And I think about all the different ways that you and I are tempted to do this all the time to use God's name in vain in ways that don't acknowledge his holiness.

How awesome and righteous and majestic he is.

So maybe not even in a way that we might be cursing or this or that, but even using his name lightly or treating his presence in our lives lightly or coming before God in a way that is not worthy of his holiness and his glory and his majesty.

We all are prone every day to forget how holy and awesome God is and to not walk in the language of Acts 9 verse 31 to not walk in the fear of the Lord.

And so we pray, God, help us to treat you as holy, to honor you as holy, to worship you as holy, to glorify you as holy.

Every day when we come before you and we open your word, help us to see it as your holy word, not just as words on a page like any other book, but as your holy word to be obeyed fully with our lives.

When we pray, whether it's before a meal, God help us not to be casual in our prayers before a meal just to recite some wrote words, God help us to think about, consider who you are as we pray to you from morning to evening and all throughout the day knowing that our bodies are a temple of your holy spirit.

God, we pray that you would help us to live with holiness, to honor you as a holy when every thought we have today with every desire, every word we speak, every decision we make, everything we do, God, help us to honor you as holy.

And God, we pray for the hollowing of your name, just as Jesus you taught us to pray, our Father in heaven, hollowed be your name, cause your name to be known as holy through our lives, through our families, through our churches, cause your name to be revered and honored more and more in our cities where we live.

And God, we pray that you would cause your name to be revered and honored and glorified among the nations, among the bellows of Pakistan, God, may your name be known as holy among Somalis, God, and among Afghans, among North Koreans, God, and all these different places all over the world, may your name, may the name of Jesus be exalted as holy.

And God, we pray that you would use our lives today toward that end.

We pray all of this in light of 2nd Samuel, chapter 6, verse 6 and 7, help us to walk in the fear of the Lord today, in Jesus' name we pray. Amen.