OBED-EDOM: UNCOMMON FAVOUR THROUGH GOD’S GRACE UNDER NEGATIVE EXPOSURE
Psalm 17:28,15
And David was afraid of the LORD that day, and said, How shall the ark of the LORD come to me? So David would not remove the ark of the LORD unto him into the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.
2 Sam 6:9-10
Sending the ark into the home of Obed-Edom was clearly not an altruistic action from the king of Israel. Other that the convenience of contiguity to the scene of disaster where Uzza met his gruesome death, there does not appear to be anything else that recommended the humble home of this Gittite for the august visitor that the ark of the Lord represented.
The nearby home of Obed-Edom saved the king from the embarrassment that Uzza’s death caused. Yet it appeared that nobody was concerned that what happened to Uzza could have happened to anybody else in Obed-Edoms household.
It must have taken a superhuman person to accept the charge of the ark in those circumstances without protest, but it was never recorded that-Obed Edom grumbled or complained about the arrangement. He saw it as pure divine favour. Believers should avoid a persecution complex when things appear to go against them. We should learn to give the best spiritual interpretation to events and issues. Christian workers would achieve more when they refrain from imputing improper or evil motives to leaders’ decisions.
It is certainly better and more Christlike to be an epitome of submission than to be a champion of protests. Real believers know that all things work together for good for them that love the Lord, who are the called according to His purpose (Rom. 8: 28).
Paul’s imprisonment at Philipi in the company of Silas was hardly a planned event. Yet it turned out to be the opportunity of redemption that the family of the jailor could not miss as Paul and Silas brought heaven down to the prison. Even his final imprisonment in Rome was the golden opportunity the apostle needed to write life-changing epistles that have blessed the church through the centuries till today. Joseph’s odyssey took its source from fratricidal hatred. It coursed through the valley of false incrimination under Portiphar’s roof and the dungeon of ensuing imprisonment. But it all climaxed in the royal courts of Egyptian prime-ministership, with a befitting epilogue in which Almighty God was acclaimed as the perfect architect who works out everything according to the pleasure of His own will. (Gen. 45:5,7-8).
Anything you are called upon to do, see it as a divine favour from the Lord as there are better options available for the Lord. If you refuse to do it, thousands of people will immediately spring up and they will do it better than you. If Obed-edom had rejected the ark that day, don’t think the ark of the Lord will sleep outside that night, the ark would have still find a place of abode, as the Lord would immediately replace Obed-edom. Obed-edom may looks foolish to some of his neighbors for allowing the ark of the Lord into his home, but to God he is the wisest man available at that time. Men may call you names, but it doesn’t matter, so long as the Lord approves your service.
GOD BLESS YOU
DeleKelvin
08171080012
2 Sam 6:9-10
Sending the ark into the home of Obed-Edom was clearly not an altruistic action from the king of Israel. Other that the convenience of contiguity to the scene of disaster where Uzza met his gruesome death, there does not appear to be anything else that recommended the humble home of this Gittite for the august visitor that the ark of the Lord represented.
The nearby home of Obed-Edom saved the king from the embarrassment that Uzza’s death caused. Yet it appeared that nobody was concerned that what happened to Uzza could have happened to anybody else in Obed-Edoms household.
It must have taken a superhuman person to accept the charge of the ark in those circumstances without protest, but it was never recorded that-Obed Edom grumbled or complained about the arrangement. He saw it as pure divine favour. Believers should avoid a persecution complex when things appear to go against them. We should learn to give the best spiritual interpretation to events and issues. Christian workers would achieve more when they refrain from imputing improper or evil motives to leaders’ decisions.
It is certainly better and more Christlike to be an epitome of submission than to be a champion of protests. Real believers know that all things work together for good for them that love the Lord, who are the called according to His purpose (Rom. 8: 28).
Paul’s imprisonment at Philipi in the company of Silas was hardly a planned event. Yet it turned out to be the opportunity of redemption that the family of the jailor could not miss as Paul and Silas brought heaven down to the prison. Even his final imprisonment in Rome was the golden opportunity the apostle needed to write life-changing epistles that have blessed the church through the centuries till today. Joseph’s odyssey took its source from fratricidal hatred. It coursed through the valley of false incrimination under Portiphar’s roof and the dungeon of ensuing imprisonment. But it all climaxed in the royal courts of Egyptian prime-ministership, with a befitting epilogue in which Almighty God was acclaimed as the perfect architect who works out everything according to the pleasure of His own will. (Gen. 45:5,7-8).
Anything you are called upon to do, see it as a divine favour from the Lord as there are better options available for the Lord. If you refuse to do it, thousands of people will immediately spring up and they will do it better than you. If Obed-edom had rejected the ark that day, don’t think the ark of the Lord will sleep outside that night, the ark would have still find a place of abode, as the Lord would immediately replace Obed-edom. Obed-edom may looks foolish to some of his neighbors for allowing the ark of the Lord into his home, but to God he is the wisest man available at that time. Men may call you names, but it doesn’t matter, so long as the Lord approves your service.
GOD BLESS YOU
DeleKelvin
08171080012
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