“Let them praise His Name with dancing. Let them make music to Him with tambourines and lyres, because the LORD takes pleasure in His people. He crowns those who are oppressed with victory.” Psalm 149:3-4
I love watching children dancing. Their free little spirits can just let loose at a
moment’s notice. They just get happy. And their whole body feels it. They simply have
to move with abandon.
God’s Word tells us that He “gets that.” He loves to see us….His Children….dance! It’s a
physical response that He wove within our spirits, to be set free by emotions that simply
need to come out. It’s a piece of how He created each of us, and we just need to let that
piece come out with abandon sometimes.
When children break out in dance, there is joy. There is freedom in their spirits, and it
just needs to come out in their little bodies. No set plan…no practiced steps…no
specific music. . . it’s from a deep place in our beings that was made to come out
through our spirits, our bodies, our faces, our eyes, and our voices. It’s part of a physical
response to sensing God’s Spirit dancing over us. About us. With us.
I grew up in an era of Christianity that catagorized dancing as ‘sinful.’ It was part of a
restrictive sense of spirituality. But as I watch the children in my life freely expressing
joy and excitement with their whole being, including their little bodies, I find myself
wishing I could feel so free. Especially being able to freely worship the God I love with
emotions, spirit, mind, and movement.
The Psalmist enjoyed dancing as part of his praise and joy expression to God. This was
no graceful waltz. No measured steps….not if tamborines and lyres were part of it. This
was active and energetic movement, expressing joy coming up from deep inside of him
. . . joy and love for his God.
And God experiences pleasure in watching us, as our chains of oppression are broken
by Him, and replaced with crowns of victory! We’re gonna dance!
I don’t want to miss THAT party!!
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