• As a worship dancer, I would imagine that II Samuel 6:14-15 is a familiar passage of scripture to you?  Most Christian dancers have studied this passage at one time or another as a means of understanding the type of extravagant worship that God desires through our dancing.  And while we will look at this passage as it stands alone…there is a much deeper sense of what the Bible depicts here than merely King David dancing before the Lord exuberantly.  God is showing us the depth of cost David (and the entire nation of Israel) paid in order to restore the presence of God to the tabernacle and to their city.  

• II Samuel 6:14-15……David, wearing a linen ephod, danced before the LORD with all his might, while he and the entire house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouts and the sound of trumpets.  

• According to the Strong’s Concordance, David is found whirling and leaping before the Lord with all his might (strength, force, boldness, power, majesty, and praise) while he and the entire nation of Israel ushered the ark of the covenant (representing God’s presence) into Jerusalem with shouts and the sounding of trumpets that made a clamor so thunderous it could “split the ear”.  Surely this passage alone reveals that God not only desires reverent honor & humility in worship, but also bold, thunderous praise in awe of His majesty.  

• I want to live before Him in such a way that not only do others sense the sweetness of my adoration for Him……but also, in such a way as to make a roaring praise about His majesty so that everyone takes notice of HIM!!!  Not only in dancing, but in day-to-day life itself, I want to lift up a shout of praise that boasts about ALL that HE is!  And in doing so, I have no need to remain dignified in the eyes of others ~ if I appear to be a fool who is fanatically in love with Jesus, then so be it!!!  

• David expressed this same thought in II Samuel 6:21-22 as he responds to his wife’s sarcastic criticism……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.  

• By the time the ark of the covenant had made its looonnnggg journey to Jerusalem, David did not care who saw him worshiping, nor what they might think of him as he did so.  He was elated that finally the presence of God was being restored to its rightful place in the tabernacle, and in the city where he lived.  

• Does this describe how YOU feel about having the tangible presence of God in your heart, your home, your church, your city, your nation?  Are you willing to be a “fool” in the eyes of others, giving no regard to what others think about you as long as God is pleased?  Are you more focused on being pleasing to God or pleasing to man?  What do you desire more ~ influence with God or influence with man?  And to what extent are you willing to love Him extravagantly, no matter what the cost?

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