FAITH CAPSULE: Before God, there is no excuse for ignorance.
2 Samuel 6
A lack of knowledge and understanding is the state of being ignorant.
In life, ignorance makes destitute of a believer.
God alone is the creator of all.
God sees heaven and earth, and no one can successfully hide from God.
Before God, there is no excuse for ignorance.
The lack of knowledge and understanding is engaging in a journey of self-destruction.
Hosea 4:6 records, “My people are destroyed, for lack of knowledge.”
Ignorance is a lack of knowledge that makes a believer destitute. Among believers, doing right in a wrong way or doing wrong instead of doing right before God is rampant. Romans 10:3 states, “For they, being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God.”
Set yourself before God:
Study to know God and not be an ignorant believer.
Always do right and know there is no excuse for ignorance before God.
Taking the doings of God for granted is not acceptable or counts for ignorant.
Do not take God for granted.
Taking God for granted is disobedient to His word.
The word of God located Abraham asking for the sacrifice of his one and only child.
The word of God speaks to Abraham, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now, I know that you fear God since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.” (Genesis 22:12)
Abraham obeyed God, not withholding against the word of God that located Him.
Answering Abraham to God’s command is the character of seeking God diligently.
Deuteronomy 4:29 records, “But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
Abraham found God.
One who seeks God with all heart and soul is seeking God diligently.
Abraham could not take God for granted but obeyed God and lived life for God by seeking God with all his heart and soul.
Are you taking God for granted?
The life of Uzzah is the evidence of ignorance with no excuse before God.
Uzzah made a wrong choice in an attempt to save the ark from falling.
When returning the Ark of God back to Jerusalem, Uzzah violated touching the Ark of God.
Uzzah was ignorant to touch the Ark of God for the termination of his life.
2 Samuel 6:6-8 documents, “And when they came to Nachon’s threshing floor, Uzzah put out his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen stumbled. 7 Then the anger of the Lord was aroused against Uzzah, and God struck him there for his error, and he died there by the ark of God.”
The ignorance of Uzzah terminated his untimely death.
There is no excuse to experience wrongdoing before.
Prayer for today: Ask not to become a victim of ignorance before God.