Stripping Pride before God
“So when the Lord saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” Then He said, “Do not draw near this place. Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground." Exodus 3:4-5 Wearing a linen ephod, David was dancing before the LORD with all his might. 2 Samuel 6:14 "I will become even more undignified than this, and I will be humiliated in my own eyes. But by these slave girls you spoke of, I will be held in honor.” 2 Samuel 6:22 1) Why did God asked Moses to remove his sandals? 2) What got Holiness and Holy Ground to do with removing sandals? (In today's modern times, internal issues of the heart carries more value than external factor, what got fashion got to do with issue of the heart?) When King David leapt and danced before God, his wife despised him. She despised him because he worshiped God in a manner ...