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David now built several buildings for himself in the City of David. He also prepared a place for the Ark of God and set up a special tent for it.
1 Chronicles 15:1

Then David summoned all Israel to Jerusalem to bring the Ark of the Lord to the place he had prepared
for it.
1 Chronicles 15:3

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I wonder why Michal was filled with contempt.

But as the Ark of the Lord entered the City of David, Michal, the daughter of Saul, looked down from her window. When she saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, she was filled with contempt for him.
2 Samuel 6:16

Spurgeon on this attitude:
“No doubt, there are particularly nice and dainty people who will censure God’s chosen if they live wholly to his praise, and they will call them eccentric, old-fashioned, obstinate, absurd, and I don’t know what besides. From the window of their superiority, they look down upon us.”

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Following God’s ways is always the best way.

Our heart is the dwelling place of the Presence of God. The Presence doesn’t come and go, but is more palatable and communicative when we

• Purify ourselves
  He said to them, “You are the leaders of the Levite families. You must purify yourselves and all your fellow Levites, so you can bring the Ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, to the place I have prepared for it.
  1 Chronicles 15:12

• Sacrifice of ourselves
  And because God was clearly helping the Levites as they carried the Ark of the Lord’s Covenant, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.
  1 Chronicles 15:26

• Worship and Celebrate His Presence
  So, all Israel brought up the Ark of the Lord’s Covenant with shouts of joy, the blowing of rams’ horns and trumpets, the crashing of cymbals, and loud playing on harps and lyres.
  1 Chronicles 15:28

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Always prepared for His Presence.