Reading
SAA Notes
The first thing David does after the defeat of Israel’s enemies is to bring the Ark into Jerusalem. We are to live by the Word of the Lord – Uzzah lived by his own ideas, and died. The Levites didn’t make that mistake a second time – they carried the Ark as the Lord instructed Moses!
SJA Notes
* Dear God, may we tell to the coming generation, Your glorious deeds, Your might, the wonders You have done.
“It was before the LORD … I will make myself yet more contemptible than this, and I will be abased in your eyes.”
David danced before the Lord with all his might.
We see here in David the behaviour that James, Paul, Peter and others in the New Testament exhort us toward.
David humbles himself before the Lord, and the Lord exalts him (James 4:10, 1 Peter 5:6).
We see in Michal’s response that of the world. It sees true religion, worshipping our God above, as foolishness. Michael saw David abasing himself before the Lord, not caring that he might look silly, for the glory of the Lord – And she despised David, she despised the Lord.
The apostle Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 1,
“For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.”
This is it!
David considers the foolishness of following God a much smarter choice than the wisdom of the world.
David considers the weakness of following God a far better choice than the strength of the world.
Paul says of Jesus in Philippians 2,
“And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.”
Jesus, God the Son, humbled Himself before His Father.
We can join with David in reflecting Jesus to those around us.
* Dear Lord,
Thank You for David’s witness, pointing to You.
Please teach us today what You want us to know, enough for the day.
Please make us more like Jesus.
Amen.