That's a very judgmental statement Directline...what if say I got a tattoo that stated God is Faithful, or Gloria in Excellis Deo which is latin for Glory to God in the highest...does that sound like I'm saying hey look at me im really something? With all due respect brother I believe that it is generally your generation that frowns upon tattoos as it was something not so common back then...I just find it difficult to believe that God would say hey you Moses you have tattoos sorry only non-tattooed people in Heaven! How many people are tattooed from arms to chest to legs and are used by the Lord to do wonderful things! How many people are clean and non-tattooed and their intentions heart are "inked" in evil sinful intentions. It's not about the vessel but what is in the vessel, and what's in each of us as Christians is well...Christ!
Let us not be white washed tombs all pretty and clean and "perfect" on the outside however dirty rooting and evil on the inside...just saying...
So what you are saying is that if you do something for the right reason, even if God says not to, then it is OK? God will be just fine with it?
2Sa 6:3 And they set the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that was in Gibeah: and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drave the new cart.
2Sa 6:6 And when they came to Nachon's threshingfloor, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it.
2Sa 6:7 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.
How'd Uzzah's good faith effort to prevent the Ark from falling off the cart work out for him?
God stated specifically that the sons of Kohath should carry the ark by the poles inserted in the rings of it. They were moving the Ark in a fashion different from the instruction God gave.
2Sa 6:9 And David was afraid of the LORD that day, and said, How shall the ark of the LORD come to me?
2Sa 6:10 So David would not remove the ark of the LORD unto him into the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obededom the Gittite.
2Sa 6:11 And the ark of the LORD continued in the house of Obededom the Gittite three months: and the LORD blessed Obededom, and all his household.
And what happened when they transported correctly?
2Sa 6:12 And it was told king David, saying, The LORD hath blessed the house of Obededom, and all that pertaineth unto him, because of the ark of God. So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obededom into the city of David with gladness.
2Sa 6:13 And it was so, that when they that bare the ark of the LORD had gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings.
2Sa 6:14 And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.
2Sa 6:15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.
2Sa 6:16 And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.
2Sa 6:17 And they brought in the ark of the LORD, and set it in his place, in the midst of the tabernacle that David had pitched for it: and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.
Seems people have always had a problem with doing things God's way. God tells us that what seems reasonable and logical to us is not always right...
Isa 55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
Isa 55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
So when God says to do something and we don't always understand why, the best course is to just do what God says.