Another Doing Right Rightly Lesson

I Chron. 13-16

The account of David carrying the ark back to the children of Israel...Uzza and his friend "drave the cart". Upon a crossing, Uzzah tries to steady the ark and touches it. God then kills him because it was commanded that noone could touch the ark of God. He had said it back in Joshua

Jos 3:3-4
And they commanded the people, saying, When ye see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then ye shall remove from your place, and go after it.
Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure:

God was specific to the instructions of how to carry it. Only the Levites could and there is no mention of animals helping to carry it. Because David didn't plan and do right "rightly" a man lost his life. The secular thinking "the end justifies the means" does not apply to God's thinking. He has rules for a reason. Everything is a symbol to something and when we choose to alter it to make the "end" we want, God does not bless that, in fact, He curses it. Sad thing is, that we tend to think that when He does punish us, He's being mean and cruel. When truthfully, we knew the rules before we started and felt breaking them was honorable for our cause of "right." Abba, help me to not be guilty of excusing bad actions to get right results.

Later David realizing his mistake:

15:2
Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites: for them hath the LORD chosen to carry the ark of God, and to minister unto him for ever.
15:13
For because ye [did it] not at the first, the LORD our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order.
15:14
So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel.
15:15
And the children of the Levites bare the ark of God upon their shoulders with the staves thereon, as Moses commanded according to the word of the LORD.

It's sad that Uzza had to lose his life first. If they would have carried it the way God said, it would have never become unstable and had to be "held." What a tragic leadership mistake. This teaches me not only to do right rightly, but to teach those who follow me to do right rightly and never put them in a position that makes them do right wrongly.