Just Dance…
Photo by Laura Fuhrman on Unsplash
For a while now, I have been doing something new every morning as I get dressed.
It may seem kind of silly, but I am telling you, it sets my day RIGHT and my heart even RIGHT-ER. (we will pretend that’s a real word)
It began when I began playing my favorite wake-up Christian song to help get me going.
It is a song I love to sing in the early morning and I decided to add a little spark to this routine.
As I was listening to this song one day, putting on my make-up, I just smiled a big toothy smile and began to dance in my bathroom.
YES.
Dance.
Quickly, I was reminded of King David, how he danced and worshiped before the Lord!
Then David danced before the Lord with all his might; and David was wearing a linen ephod. 2 Samuel 6:14
In this passage David and his men were entering into the City of David carrying the ark of The Lord.
David was so overjoyed and overcome with worship and praising that he began to dance! I love the picture of this beautiful scene in scripture.
Not only was David unashamed of his love for God, but he was more than willing to make a fool of himself in front of the whole town.
Honestly, I do not think the judgments and thoughts of others even crossed his mind.
He was reckless with his worship, in the best way.
Just another one of the million and five reasons I love King David!
Michal, his wife, did not think the sight was lovely though. At all.
She rebuked him and told him that he made a fool of himself, basically.
I love his response to her…buckle up and grab your popcorn…
David said to Michal, “It was before the Lord, who chose me rather than your father or anyone from his house when he appointed me ruler over the Lord’s people Israel—I will celebrate before the Lord. I will become even more undignified than this, and I will be humiliated in my own eyes. But by these slave girls you spoke of, I will be held in honor.”
And Michal daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death.
Whoa! Don’t you just love David’s zeal for God? It just wrecks me!
The sad part is, Michal didn’t get it. She remained cynical and bitter.
So, as I dance in my bathroom each morning, I pray and ask God to fill my heart with JOY and to remove any trace of bitterness or cynicism.
Doesn’t this world have enough cynical people??
Good golly.
It is truly exhausting.
Let’s be people of JOY!
Let’s be people who DANCE before the Lord no matter who is watching!
Let’s be BOLD in our worship and praise!
One of the most poignant examples of living out this kind of JOY is a lady I met years ago, Annie Ruth.
Some friends and I were at a local coffee shop doing Bible Study.
She walked right up to us and asked if she could join us.
Ummm, well, of course!
She came to almost every meeting we had there at that little coffee shop. Never missing a day.
She taught us ALL how to live out boldness and JOY.
When we prayed together, she would ask us to stand up and hold hands. Right in the center of that small town coffee shop.
Gulp.
We did!
She said, “God always stands up for us, let’s stand up for HIM!”
To this day, I have never met anyone so full of JOY of the Lord! It is truly contagious!
Tomorrow, as you get dressed, turn up some praise music and try a little dancing before The Lord.
He is worthy of all of our praise!!!
We need more King David’s and Annie Ruth’s in the world…
Are you willing?
Psalm 150…
Praise the Lord.
Praise God in his sanctuary;
praise him in his mighty heavens.
Praise him for his acts of power;
praise him for his surpassing greatness.
Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet,
praise him with the harp and lyre,
praise him with timbrel and dancing,
praise him with the strings and pipe,
praise him with the clash of cymbals,
praise him with resounding cymbals.
Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.
Praise the Lord.
dancing in my bathroom,
jill
