David arranges for the ark to be returned to the City of David. However, it didn't make it there. They moved the ark on an oxen cart with two men guiding it, Uzzah and Ahio. Uzzah reaches up to steady the ark. Uzzah is killed. Sounds like pretty stiff punishment, doesn't it?

Well....we, humans always want to rationalize with statements such as this. Uzzah was only trying to help. The oxen had stumbled. He was only trying to steady the ark. He only touched the ark. Why was he killed?

Well....Suppose it has anything to do with God's commandments about who was to carry the ark, how they were to carry the ark, etc.???

In today's reading, we find this most wonderful of verses!
Ps 18:35b
you stoop down to make me great.

Think about the significance of that verse. You (God) stoop down to make me (put your name there) great. God certainly did stoop down when He came to earth to die for our sins so that we could be made great. Wow!