Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—1 Chronicles 15:1-3, 11-15
by: Linda Harris.
After a disastrous incident while moving the ark (1 Chronicles 13), David brought the ark to Jerusalem in the way commanded by God (15:15). David admitted that he and the priests failed to find out how God wanted them to move it (15:13). They did what made sense to them.
We don’t have to understand why something should be done in order to obey God. When we do what seems to make sense to us rather than what God commands, it’s just as much disobedience as ignoring God altogether. In fact, there are times when God asks us to do what doesn’t make sense in order to test our obedience.