MinistryMessages
December 24, 2012
This entry is part [part not set] of 3099 in the series Daily Words for the Christian Life
And so it was, that when the bearers of the ark of the Lord had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fatling. And David was dancing before the Lord with all his might, and David was wearing a linen ephod.
— Second Samuel 6:13-14
David, clothed in a linen ephod like the priests, accompanied the ark. It was as if he were saying, “I the king would like to be a priest too. Might I share in this privilege of accompanying the ark?” David stripped off his kingly garments and exchanged them for a priestly one. This was how he served the Lord that day.
Adapted from David: After God’s Heart, page 95.
Tomorrow: “Bringing the Ark Up to Jerusalem” (6)