"Touch Not My Anointed"... but not as we've known it

"Touch Not My Anointed"... but not as we've known it
by Lynette Woods

All Scripture references are from The Amplified Bible 

The phrase "touch not My anointed" has been abused and misused, often by people who do not want to hear anything negative or convicting. However, Father has been showing me a completely different way of looking at this phrase. Many times we touch God's anointed ones (His children) without realising it; through our words. Not only with negative words but even through our compassionate, kind words. I was prompted to read the following story, and then Father showed me the importance of speaking from Christ and His nature within me rather than from my own nature. And they set the ark of God upon a new cart and brought it out of the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill; and Uzzah and Ahio, sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart.  And when they came to Nacon's threshing floor, Uzzah put out his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen stumbled and shook it.  And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for touching the ark, and he died there by the ark of God.  David was grieved and offended because the Lord had broken forth upon Uzzah, and that place is called Perez-uzzah to this day. 2 Sam 6:3,6-8.   The ark of God was the most sacred piece of furniture in the temple, it was in the Holy of Holies.  It was representative of God's presence and power because it contained some manna, the 10 commandments and the rod.  This is what I saw - the ark represents not only Christ, but also His power and presence in His house/temple; which is now each of us as parts of His Body.  We each contain Him as our manna (spiritual food - Jesus is our Bread), His laws (which are now written on our hearts instead of being external rules to keep) and the rod (discipline & guidance from Him) - ALL of which originate and come from the Holy Spirit and are in the internal holy of holies or spirit of each of our temples/bodies. In this story the ark (representing the spirit of a child of God which contains the Holy Spirit) came to Nacon's threshing floor which is a place of separation where the chaff is removed from the wheat.  Nacon's name means "prepared".  This threshing floor, these difficult circumstances, were prepared and ordained by God for separating and winnowing.  When it looked like the ark/person got shaken (was being winnowed) and was in danger of falling, Uzzah reached out and STOPPED it! He presumed that he was doing God a favour, that he was doing what God wanted and he was immediately killed for his presumption because he had interfered with something holy and something that God had allowed to happen! Uzzah's name means "strength" and he did this in his own strength, with the strength of his flesh, his own arm.  It was NOT of God.  It was not God's compassion or mercy that he was acting from, but rather his own compassion. Our "Good" Intentions It is true that our first reaction is usually of the flesh. Good intentions don't count for a thing; if something originates from our flesh, whether good or bad, then it is unholy and will produce death, not life. "A good intention will not justify a bad action".  Perhaps it was Uzzah’s long familiarity with the ark, since it had been in his home, that brought about his presumptuous act, but that did not excuse it. And David was offended.  The Hebrew word means to be furious; how could God be so lacking in compassion and mercy?  After all, Uzzah was just trying to HELP Him!  BUT God does not need or want our help when it comes from our own strength.  Even fleshly mercy is an unrighteous and unholy thing because it is from us and from our flesh and not from God and His Life!  It is the Spirit Who gives life; the flesh conveys no benefit whatever. (John 6:63). One of the ways in which we learn is by our mistakes. Our natural tendency when we see someone heading for trouble is to try to stop them; or if someone is hurting, to comfort them. Sometimes that is the right thing to do, but sometimes it is the wrong thing to do. Sometimes our Father will want to teach His child something due to the consequences of their actions or words. If we intervene and interfere with that; we are touching something holy, we are touching God's anointed one. The reason the ark was shaken in the first place was because it was not being carried in the way that God had specified. David was transporting it on a new cart; but it was meant to be carried on poles on priest's shoulders; not ever on some man-made device!  They had made an exception to God's rules regarding carrying the ark.  Perhaps they had compassion on the men who had to carry it and thought they had come up with a much better idea... BUT it was NOT God's way! It was the way of their enemies. It had been carried on a new cart by the Philistines, and it had arrived back in Israel on the cart the Philistines had made (1 Sam 6). We are not to follow the ways of the world, even ways which appear to be a good idea. Our "Good" Ideas The cart was man's way of dealing with things but it was not God's way.  At the prepared time and place the oxen stumbled and caused the ark to begin to fall.  Perhaps the oxen stumbled over a rock?  Jesus is the Rock of Offence and Stumbling Block (Is 8:14, Rom 9:32, 1 Pet 2:8).  Yet how often do we see a brother or sister stumble over Who He is or what He reveals to them and then we, in our so-called wisdom, try to tell them that it's all okay?  God USES offence to offend us in order to reveal to us something about ourselves that we do not want to see, but that we NEED to see; it is in fact His kindness that He will try to show it to us.  When you are offended; TAKE NOTE!  What is the Spirit showing you about yourself?  Don't concern yourself with the person who offended you or become pre-occupied with them, deal with the beam in your own eye.  You are responsible and accountable for yourself, not for your brother or sister. They had just been trying to HELP with the cart idea and Uzzah had just been trying to help stop the ark/person falling, so David got offended and angry at God. God did not appear to recognise how helpful they had all been, after all, didn't He see their hearts and know that they had His best interests at heart? Didn't He understand that they had the best intentions and motives? They didn't want His ark to be damaged!  Doesn't He know how much He needs us to help Him and one another?