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of a man who is walking with the ark in the middle of a people who would become casual

with the presence of God who had lost reverence for God and his presence among them and as the

oxen who are carrying the ark stumble. Use of reaches out and touches the ark which God had

expressly, specifically explicitly said, do not ever do. Use of does so and he dies before God

just like that. This picture of a lack of reverence for God, all of God, a casual approach to God

and a casual approach to God's commands. God just pause there and encourage you to ask,

is there any sense in which you have grown casual with the presence of God? Obviously, yes,

God is our father or even called God's friend in the Bible. So yes, there's an intimacy there,

but it's an intimacy that should always be marked by reverence and awe and fear. That's a

word we see over and over and over again in the Bible to fear God. When you think about Isaiah and

the presence of God, like trembling, so overwhelmed by the holiness of God and whose presence he is

standing, like are you and I prone to grow casual with God and with the commands of God?

Such a way that we might disobey his command with a thought here or a word there or a desire

or action. And then we think, God, that wasn't that big a deal. When one sin against God is worthy

of death is worthy of eternal death. That's what first Chronicles 13 is shouting here. All of the

Bible is shouting the seriousness of sin. God, help us with pray. We're just paused right now and

confess before you a tendency to be casual before you. God, I confess that in my own life,

for sure, God, I pray that you'd forgive me for not always fearing you and

revering you. And God, for the way I can be so casual with your commands with sin and temptation.

God, please, please, please give me a reverence for your word and hatred of sin. God, I pray for

this in my life. We pray for this in each of our lives. God, help us all to fear you, help us to

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