Sat.’s Devo - Brining Back the Ark

Read: 1 Chronicles 15:1-16:36; Romans 1:18-32; Psalm 10:1-15; Proverbs 19:6-7
In the three months that the ark stayed at Obed-Edom’s house, David did his homework about how to move the ark. He came back prepared with Levites to carry it and all the priests in their places. He had gathered the people to celebrate, had all the divisions of the Levites, the music for worship and the animals for sacrifice. David came dressed and ready to praise and worship the presence of the Lord represented by the ark. He did it with much pomp and sincerity of heart. David had written a song for this occasion to teach the people so they could together praise the Lord.
In David’s song he reminded them to seek the Lord always and remember all he had done for them. God doesn’t forget and he is faithful to do everything he told Abraham he would do. He reminded them of how the Lord kept them safely when they entered the land of Canaan and how he wouldn’t allow any nation to touch them as long as they looked to him. God is the only God and He is worthy of praise. Then he invited all of God’s creation to praise the Lord with them.
The people sang the song and agreed with it.
In Romans, Paul talked about God’s creation also. He taught them that all man is inexcusable in their unbelief because creation itself proves and shows the Godhead.
Those who refused to see God or believe him were given over to delusion in every direction of their heart. God is the god of order and peace but to reject him is to rebel against nature and what man was created to be. Men turned to homosexuality, envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice they became gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful, and they invented ways of doing evil, they disobeyed their parents, were senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless and they deserve death so that they would not be able to continue doing the sins they were doing.
It doesn’t take much of an imagination to realize we are seeing this everywhere. We now have hate crimes because people have become haters instead of lovers. This is the exact opposite of God’s kingdom.
Lord, help us not to be tempted to join in the sins of those who turned from you. Help us to remember your promises and live in expectation of what you are going to do.