Life Ain't Fair!

 

2 Samuel 6:6-8(NKJV)

6And 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. 

7Then 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. 

8And David became angry because of the Lord’S outbreak against Uzzah; and he called the name of the place £Perez Uzzah to this day.

Of all of the things in the Bible that I have questions about, I think this is the one that bothers me the most.  I'm not saying God was wrong to do it.  I'm just saying that from everything I know about God, this seems totally out of character to me and I simply don't get it.

We hear about God's love, mercy, and justice and I fail to see any of those things in this story. 

They are moving the Ark of the Covenant on an oxen cart.  Nobody is supposed to touch the Ark directly.  Along the way the oxen stumble so that the Ark is in danger of falling to the ground.  Uzzah puts out his hand to protect the Ark and he gets fried for it.

Did Uzzah have any evil intentions?  Not that I can tell.  And it's not like they were traveling on a smooth super highway.  It was a trail so rough that even the oxen stumbled.  It seems to me that Uzzah was simply serving God to the best of his ability.

And yet he gets fried for it.

This will be on the top of my list of things to ask God about that I just don't get!