Worship at the Wellনমুনা

This story begins with David bringing the Ark of Covenant from Obed Edom’s house to Jerusalem, inviting the entire nation to worship before the manifest presence of God. It ended with David dancing wildly before God, exclaiming to his wife “I’ll be even more undignified than this.”    

What happened in-between? A blood sacrifice was made every six steps.   

Can you imagine seeing a sacrifice every 6 steps? What kind of profound truth would hit your heart concerning the sacrifice required for God’s manifest presence? That two-mile trail of blood foreshadowed Jesus’ blood shed for us, so we might enter into the holy of holies!   

David understood two truths: 

1. The manifest presence of God requires sacrifice. 

2. Our sacrifice is not enough. We come into His presence “with” a sacrifice of praise…not “through” our sacrifice of praise. When that reality strikes our consciousness, our only proper response is radical worship!  

Craig Muster