Quantity or Quality vrs. human reasoning or God's will

King David was a zealous man - he had a desire to please the Lord. He had a godly concern for the Holy Ark of God, which had been for so long neglected, to be established in the place where God had chosen it to be. Yes, he wanted it to be secure within the borders of Israel so that the people of God could come and worship Him in spirit and in truth. God desire! God's will! God and good motive! So what did he proceed to do? He did what so many of us do today. He looked at the natural situation first instead of seeking the Lord - yes, the Lord God Almighty Who gave David so many victories after he had sought Him with his whole heart. He not only looked at things naturaly but instead of seeking divine guidance as to what what God had to say about all of this - concerning the Ark, "he cosulted with all of his army officers." I Chron. 13:1 The result - disaster!!!! The ark was to be placed on a nwe cart and to be led by oxen. Do you realize - this is exactly what the heathen did. Oh, do not misunderstand for a moment - David had the best of intentions, he had all the musicians in order to worship the Lord as the ark would be coming into Jerusalem - something glorious to look forward to - but there was one thing wrong - David executed it in the wrong way. Every plan, every action, every decision no matter how right and zealous you may be, MUST be regulated by the word of God. Today, above all days, we must seek His word and His will above anything else that we may desire. It is imperative!!! We do not want to bring the displeasure of the Lord in our midst. Oh yes, David was called by God, David was anointed; David had a heart to serve God but he went about this particular incident the wrong way. What about the church today? There are those that say we need to preach to Muslims today, we need to reach out to them in any way we can. No, no, no a thousand times no. Do you realize there are "big-time" pastors that are allowing Muslim men of the false god Allah to come into churches in America and speak to congregations from the pulpits. DISASTER!!!! This is not God's way according to Scripture. They are bringing the unholy, the enemy of Jehovah God of Israel into the sacred place of worship. And we expect good things to come from this erroneous human act. No way! It is not of God. I will continue this next time but for now we must be listening for God to say to us when we are about to act on something, "Thus saith the Lord."