{"id":1237,"date":"2018-10-01T10:57:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T18:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2018-10-01T10:57:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T18:57:01","slug":"devotion-2-samuel-616-20-23-jump-and-shout-or-quietly-adore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=1237","title":{"rendered":"Devotion 2 Samuel 6:16, 20-23 Jump And Shout Or Quietly Adore"},"content":{"rendered":"

2 Samuel 6:16, 20-23<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0\u00a0<\/sup><\/b>As the ark of the\u00a0Lord<\/span>\u00a0was entering the City of David,\u00a0Michal\u00a0daughter of Saul watched from a window. And when she saw King David leaping and dancing before the\u00a0Lord<\/span>, she despised him in her heart.\u00a0 When David returned home to bless his household, Michal daughter of Saul came out to meet him and said, \u201cHow the king of Israel has distinguished himself today, going around half-naked\u00a0in full view of the slave girls of his servants as any vulgar fellow would!\u201d\u00a0 21\u00a0David said to Michal, \u201cIt was before the\u00a0Lord, who chose me rather than your father or anyone from his house when he appointed\u00a0me rulerover the\u00a0Lord\u2019s people Israel\u2014I will celebrate before the\u00a0Lord.\u00a022\u00a0I 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.\u201d\u00a0 23\u00a0And Michal daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death.<\/p>\n

King David was joyously, with abandon, leaping and dancing before God.\u00a0 He had musicians and singers there and we can be sure that David was singing at the top of his voice.\u00a0 This was the king of Israel and he didn\u2019t even consider how he in his position as King should appear, he was fully celebrating the Lord and openly adoring him.\u00a0\u00a0V14<\/b>\u00a0states that he and those who were with him were \u201cdancing with all his might\u201d\u00a0\u00a0V15\u00a0<\/b>relates how they were giving themselves to abandoning the care of what others were thinking as they danced and shouted with the sound of the trumpets.<\/p>\n

It is easy to believe that all of us can remember a time when we were so happy we jumped, and danced, and laughed and shouted with joy.\u00a0 Maybe as a child, or as an adult (hopefully as an adult and hopefully often!).\u00a0 We didn\u2019t care who was watching or what the onlookers may be thinking.\u00a0 David did this celebrating the Lord.\u00a0 I can just hear him shouting to God \u201cI love you Lord God\u201d and \u201cThank you Lord\u201d and \u201cOh precious God You are so amazing and so wonderful.\u201d\u00a0 He wanted no encumbrances and took off his outer clothing to just dance and celebrate God with uninhibited glee!\u00a0 Praise God!\u00a0 Just thinking about it makes one want to start the celebration!<\/p>\n

Family, have you done that.\u00a0 I don\u2019t mean standing in church and in an orderly fashion clapping your hands and singing along with others and while even, maybe, a tear of joy running down your cheek.\u00a0 What we\u2019re talking about, maybe in private or with others, is doing exactly what David did.\u00a0 Shouting \u201cI love you\u201d to the Lord at the top of your voice.\u00a0 Has the love, beauty, and wonder of God so overwhelmed you that you could not help but dancing and singing to the Lord.\u00a0 I have many times, and I still do.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure many of you have.\u00a0 For those who have not, get together with some \u201cexuberant\u201d Christians, you know, ones like David, and dance in the Spirit, dance and sing and shout out love and appreciation to God.\u00a0 It is really wonderful!\u00a0 That\u2019s what David did!\u00a0 This was not the only time He did.\u00a0 Consider\u00a0Psalm 100<\/b>, can you see just David shouting and singing and in that spirit, write this Psalm.\u00a0Psalm 98<\/b>\u00a0loudly reveals David celebrating in like manner.\u00a0 He is celebrating and reveling in His God!\u00a0 He wants everyone (all the earth) to \u201cburst into jubilant song with music.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/i>He wants \u201call the earth,\u201d\u00a0<\/i>all of creation to join with Him in celebrating God.\u00a0 No wonder the Lord God described David as \u201ca man after mine own heart!<\/i>\u201d\u00a0 Wouldn\u2019t we all want the Lord to describe us in the same way?<\/p>\n

Not everyone appreciated David\u2019s celebration of the Lord.\u00a0\u00a0V16\u00a0<\/b>states that Michal, David\u2019s wife, had watched him from the window and did not approve. \u00a0In fact, she despised Him \u201cin her heart.<\/i>\u201d Wow!\u00a0 Michal later reveals, when she confronts David, that she thought David had not acted appropriate for a king.\u00a0 Family, we have many Michals even in our own congregations. If we loudly say \u201cPraise the Lord\u201d or \u201cAmen\u201d when the message of God through our pastors touches us, then will some think it awkward or inappropriate.\u00a0 When the worship leaders are pouring out their hearts to God to\u00a0lead<\/i>\u00a0<\/b>us in worship do we worry that if we sing too loudly, or lift our hands in praise to God, or even if we dance before God, that we will be judged?\u00a0 Family, I encourage us to love God with all that we are and to be free in our worship.\u00a0 Now, if we attend a more conservative church, then while we are in a service, let us follow decorum and keep the peace.\u00a0 But I encourage everyone to get together with other brothers and sisters and have a Praise The Lord party.\u00a0\u00a0 Let\u2019s get together with our dancing shoes on, or kick them off, and dance and praise God as we release our love and gratefulness to God.\u00a0 Let\u2019s shout to the Lord! Let\u2019s sing as loud as our spirit wants!\u00a0 If we can\u2019t do it at our church, let\u2019s get with others who want to also freely and with abandon praise God.\u00a0\u00a0Psalm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!\u00a0Amen, just do it!<\/p>\n

Now Family, I don\u2019t want to give people an easy out, we should all freely praise God!\u00a0 However, as the \u201cquiet\u201d worshippers should not judge the more vocal worshippers, so should the more vocal not judge the quiet.\u00a0 We all come from different backgrounds.\u00a0 I know many, many quiet worshippers who love God as much, or more, than many more vocal worshippers. Let\u2019s be comfortable letting each of us be whom God made us to be and praise God for each other.\u00a0 Is it possible for us to praise God side by side?\u00a0 I think so.\u00a0 Let\u2019s not judge.\u00a0 Let\u2019s just praise the Lord, freely, however God moves you.\u00a0 Let love and peace rule.<\/p>\n

Blessings and love to all!\u00a0 Jesus set us free (John 8:26<\/b>)!\u00a0 Let us celebrate the Lord!\u00a0 Be ourselves and allow others to be their selves.\u00a0 God made us all beautiful!\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/p>\n

Psalm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/p>\n

Micah 7:7<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear\u00a0me.<\/p>\n

Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0He has shown You, O man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; And what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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