Shall we dance?

"Be exalted, O LORD, in your strength; we will sing and praise your might." Psalm 21:13

We certainly should Praise the Lord when we experience victory in our lives. We should thank Him and exalt Him and glorify His name for His strength. Every time, all the time, and anytime we see the hand of God, we should burst into song, poetry, dance, rap or whatever format that best describes the amazingness of His Sovereign Majesty. We could virtually, never endingly be glorifying God because of how wonderful, perfect, holy, loving, gracious, merciful, and righteous He is and always will be. But we don’t. Hey life gets busy, we work, and go to school, and clean the house, and take care of children. We play and shop, and take care of most of our duties and responsibilities. We drive, sleep, eat, watch T.V., daydream, and chit chat. We worry, stress, waste time, complain, and cause trouble. We help, serve, attend, listen, endure, and wait. Life is very full of emotions and activities and needs and issues and all kinds of stuff.

Two suggestions for all of us. One, even when time is being consumed by the ridiculous, and the sublime, the trivial and the profound……whatever is going on while the clock is spinning…………take a deep breath while it is happening and CONSIDER GOD. Then thank Him. If you can’t consider Him during whatever it is, maybe that is a sign to stop or slow down a little.

Here is the second idea. David struggled like all of us with his feelings. He was hurt, forlorn, victimized, and lonely. He dealt with people problems, His own weaknesses and deep, dark thoughts. He reveled in success and whined in agonizing defeat. But if you keep score between his complaining and praising, he praised God so much more. How is your score? Do you do the “happy dance” or the "whiny dance" more often? It is so easy to get caught up in our trouble. We can be moody for days and in a good mood for minutes. Honestly, I think we are negative sometime to detract from how basically ungrateful we are.

Exalt the mighty Lord today, Praise Him for His greatness and as my dad used to say…… "Quit your bellyaching!" At least improve your positive/negative score so that you don’t affect everybody else’s score so much.

Before I start whining about whiners again, Praise the Lord and sing and dance, His praises never end. The other stuff will fade away anyway.

Pastor Fred

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