This little excerpt from a pre-school/kindergarten Bible class in Pulaski, Tennessee last Sunday is rich. I did NOT get permission from my friend Leslie Hamby to post this here, because I know Jake and Leslie well enough to know that anything that encourages people toward heaven is public domain. They are a light to me and to everyone who knows them. Their four little girls are rich and perfect blessings from God. Jake and Leslie are determined to give them all right back to Him! Here’s Leslie:Yesterday, in my 4,5,K Bible class, we talked about the specific way that God had commanded the ark of the covenant to be moved. We then discussed King David’s plan to have it moved to Jerusalem, which led to Uzzah’s demise. I asked the kiddos if David and all the men moving the ark on the cart had obeyed God’s instructions. Somebody said “kinda…because they weren’t touching the ark.” Ellie Foster spoke up and said “There is no kinda. You either do or you don’t, and they didn’t.” She’s so right.
In our class, we have a little saying, “obey God’s way, today, all the way.” In other words- His way is the only way, don’t put off obeying to a day we’re not sure will come. Obey His will fully now. I pray she’s always that convinced and convicted.
It didn’t matter that Uzzah’s attempt to save the ark from falling was a demonstration of his reverence or that his intentions were good. If he’d simply obeyed God’s instructions, he would never have been in that position to begin with. We too have to be careful that we’re relying on obeying His word and not on our own good intentions on our journey to THE capitol city.