Psalm 100:4\u00a0<\/b>\u2013 Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts\u00a0with praise; give thanks to Him and praise His name.<\/p>\n
2 Samuel 6:14<\/b>\u00a0states that David, when he and others were bringing the Ark of God (Where they encountered the presence of God) into the City of David (Jerusalem), he was dancing before the Lord with all his might and\u00a0V15<\/b>\u00a0states that they were joyously shouting out their praise of God and also the joy they had because of Him. They also had trumpets with them and they were dancing, singing and in rapture as they contemplated the goodness of God.\u00a0\u00a0V16<\/b>\u00a0states that as the Ark of God was entering the City of David that King David was \u201cleaping and dancing.\u201d\u00a0 Imagine the head of the city, state, or country you live in dancing and singing wildly in the streets celebrating God.\u00a0 Wow, how wonderful the expression and what a great impression it would leave on the people.\u00a0 Even us, what if we, like King David, didn\u2019t care about the scoffers or about how we might be ridiculed and we publicly (maybe in a busy park, or at the beach) just danced and praised God?\u00a0 Of course we do that at Christian concerts, but what about at non-Christian events.\u00a0 What if students at schools got together during lunch or break not to just hang out (a good thing), but also to unashamedly sing and dance in exultation of the Lord Jesus?\u00a0 What if they did and just didn\u2019t care that they made be fun of by the other students?\u00a0 What if those at work, during lunch time, did the same thing?\u00a0 What if parents came home and excitedly told their families that they did that at work and, what if, that got their kids excited about following that example? \u00a0What if, in praise to God, we just threw our hands in the air like we just don\u2019t care!\u00a0 What if we did that?\u00a0 It would seem like that kind of boldness to identify ourselves with Jesus and to please Him would be something God could use to change the world.\u00a0 Too bold?\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t for King David.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Family, David did not start to praise God when he entered into the entrance of Jerusalem.\u00a0 He was, with his brethren, praising God all along the way.\u00a0 His wife despised him for praising God with complete unconcern about his earthly position (V16<\/b>).\u00a0 David danced and praised God to show his love of God and was not concerned what anyone else might think.\u00a0 The point is, that David and the group with him did not start praising God as he was entering Jerusalem, or after he entered Jerusalem, he entered Jerusalem as he\u00a0continued<\/i>\u00a0to praise God.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t start to joyously praise God, he\u00a0continued<\/i>\u00a0to praise God!\u00a0 Too often we think that if we can grit our teeth and finally and laboriously cross the gates of Heaven that then the celebration will start.\u00a0 Family, too many of us will do that. But it should not be so.\u00a0 We should be celebrating our God and making our love for Him manifest to all.\u00a0 Let us enter the Holy City like King David, having been publicly celebrating our God before arriving at our eternal home.\u00a0 Let\u2019s let Heaven hear our celebratory voices reverberate from earth to Heaven.\u00a0 Let the angels rejoice as they hear our praises getting closer and may they look to God with great smiles as our praises to God testify of the beauty and greatness of Him.\u00a0 Yes, let the trumpets start blowing, let us sing and dance with all we are.\u00a0 Let us do that right now and continue so that we bring a continuous song of praise unto our God from now unto eternity.\u00a0 Let\u2019s start the celebration and continue it to \u201cthat day\u201d and into eternity.\u00a0\u00a0Joel 2:1<\/b>\u00a0\u201c<\/span>Blow a trumpet in Zion; sound an alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming; it is near<\/i>\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n