Have you ever missed your exit on a trip, your mortgage payment due date, your wife's birthday, your boy's ball-game, your wedding anniversary, your license plate renewal? Each of us know the pain of missing something by either procrastinating or by just getting in a hurry or maybe just being distracted.
My wife and I went out recently on our normal Friday night date. We drove thirty minutes to our favorite seafood place, but I forgot one very important component, my wallet. My wife said, "Well lets go back home, we can't eat without some money." The owner was so gracious she said,"Go ahead and eat, you can pay me the next time."
There's not to many places that will allow you to pay on your next visit. After 20 years we had built a relationship that allowed a trust and a given grace. Somehow, somebody missed it when moving the ark of God on the first try. Only the priests were to carry on poles and move the ark as was instructed by Moses in days before.
It's very easy to forget that God has mandates and assignments for his people. We are to follow his mandates and not to ignore them. A great price was paid by Uzzah reaching out his hand to catch the falling ark. He lost his life simply because somebody missed it in doing it God's way.
Saul missed it in not destroying the Amalekites; he lost God's anointing to be the King of Israel. Samson missed it when he told the secret of his power to Delilah and ended up losing his vision and power to deliver Israel from the hand of the Philistines. Jonah missed it when he chose to run from the call of God to preach to Nineveh and take a boat to Tarshish.
We all pay a price when we choose to do things the way we see it. This time David got it right. He instructed the priest to carry the Ark on poles. David dance before the Lord, I believe he said, "This time I got it right."
David knew the owner, the creator, the provider, the protector, the cleanser, the great I AM. He may have forgotten to do it God's way the first time, but not this time. Friend don't beat up yourself over your past bloopers and blunders. Get up again and do it God's way. His mercies are fresh and new each and every morning; Great is your faithfulness. (Lamentations 3:23)
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