To sacrifice an animal required great energy and effort - yet David expended this energy and effort every six steps. The world places great value on efficiency. Moving the ark on a cart would have been vastly more efficient than carrying it and stopping every six steps. God, however, values effectiveness. Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing. What’s the right thing? Stopping every six steps.

You see, throughout Scripture, six is the number of man and the flesh. Therefore, offering sacrifice every six steps says, “Because I’m a man who deals with my flesh, I’ve got to stop every six steps, build an altar, and lay my dreams, my objectives, and my life down.” Stopping every six steps says, “Lord, it’s not about what I want to do. It’s about what You want me to do. Therefore, I’m going to offer You the sacrifice of praise. I’m going to confess my fleshly tendencies every six steps throughout the day.”

It’s in stopping throughout the day to be “altared” that the chabod, the presence of God, will enter your city, your ministry, your family, your soul.