So David, the elders of Israel, and the
captains over thousands went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord
from the house of Obed-Edom with joy. And so it was, when God helped the
Levites who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord, that they offered seven
bulls and seven rams. David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, as were all
the Levites who bore the ark, the singers, and Chenaniah the music master with
the singers. David also wore a linen ephod. Thus all Israel brought up the ark
of the covenant of the Lord with shouting and with the sound of the horn, with
trumpets and with cymbals, making music with stringed instruments and harps.
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Chronicles 15 : 25-28
The linen ephod soaked up the sweat of
human effort. David’s joy, excitement
and dancing was an overflow of his heart. The presence of God manifest in the
Ark of The Covenant was the Glory of God dwelling in Israel, the blessings of
God at the heart of the nation.
Here is Christ, shadowed in the Ark of The
Covenant. We come into his presence
through the finished work of Christ. Christ soaks up all our human effort, our
works and self-righteousness and nails the Old Covenant to the cross and his
blood destroys it.
We are free to dance, sing, enjoy God in an
exuberant relationship of intimacy with the divine. We don’t have to wear a
linen ephod to soak up our sweat because Christ took all our self effort and
set us free at the cross. We can revel
in his grace, bask in his light, drench ourselves in his love and drip with his
grace.
His grace is a waterfall of his presence
and an infinite ocean of his blessing, freely given and showered into us.
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