Jesus is on my dance card

February 4, 2010

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A dance card was used by women way back in the day at a formal ball, and she listed there the men she intended to dance with, and in what order. The first usually being the person she had the most interest in, and then going down from there…I think you get the idea.

So. Jesus is on my dance card. He literally makes me want to dance sometimes. Sometimes it’s a jig (like when I listen to “Wake Up, Oh Sleeper” by Bear Rinehart, Jason Crabb, and Jonathan Shelton), and sometimes I’d like to have a slow dance. With Him (like when I heard the song “Here I am to Worship” tonight).

That thing about the jig dancing has been around for a while. When I got the second Glory Revealed cd, I heard that song, and it put a little something extra in my step…so I put it on a speaker for my roommates, and Jacob, Braxton and I danced our hearts out. To Jesus. So, rest assured, if you ever see me with headphones and I look like I’m having a spaz attack, I’m actually listening to that song, and Jesus and I are having a party. Or, if you hear the fiddle music coming from my speaker…that’s probably it…

So tonight, I’m at Shockwave (our youth service here at First Baptist Georgetown), and we sang the song “Here I Am To Worship”. I like that song a lot. But tonight, a certain line caught me. The one where it says

You’re altogether lovely…

There was just something about it that caught my ear, and made me want to do a waltz, or something with Jesus. The word lovely is one I imagine a man using to describe the woman he is with (wife/girlfriend/date…whatever the case may be) at some formal event where there is formal dancing.

Jesus is lovely. So lovely.

So I’m sitting there thinking how nice it would be to dance with Jesus, and I had to physically stop myself from dancing by myself right there in the back of the Shockwave room. Because. That’d be weird. Right? That was what I thought. But then I thought of 2 Samuel 6:14. (Something you should know: Sometimes I say “…and then I thought of (insert Bible verse here)…”, 9.9 times out of 10, I did not really think of that verse right off the top of my head. I more than likely thought of a story, and went searching for the verse.)

So. I thought of that time David was dancing (I’ve always heard that he was dancing naked. But both of the translations I looked at (NASB, and ESV), said that he had on a linen ephod. I have no idea what an ephod is.) when they brought the ark into Jerusalem. This just happens to be in chapter 6, verse 14.

Long story short, they are finally bringing the ark of God to the City of David, and this one guy touches it, and God kills him, and David gets upset, so he doesn’t take it all the way to theCity of David, but when it blessed the place he left it, he brought it to the City of David, and he danced a jig. That’s what I got out of it…

David was a man after God’s own heart. He was all kinds of screwed up, and sinned a ton (me too…), but he was always trying to figure out how he could best love the Lord. So. When he brings the ark into Jerusalem…he is so stinkin’ happy and overcome with love and joy…that he dances.

So. Even though it will probably look funny, I think you should expect to see me dancing more in the near future. When I get over the fact that it will be socially looked down upon.

And. I can’t wait until I get to dance with Jesus. Forever.

-Stippick

A lesson in humility

August 27, 2008

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I got one tonight, and it was really cool. Tonight at Shockwave (the Wednesday night, youth worship service at FBCgT) they kicked off a new series called “Wipeout”. The idea came from the TV show, but really the only likeness to that is the Youtube clips they showed, and the games they will do throughout the series. The idea for the focus of the series is how God can redeem us from our moral failures. It seems really cool, and I think He is going to be able to do some great things in the lives of students through it.

Anyway, tonight, Brett (Levy, for those of you who don’t know. He is the youth minister at FBCgT) was talking about Moses, and how he went from being born into Hebrew slavery, then raised as Egyptian royalty, then cast out when he murdered an Egyptian man, then God uses Moses to lead His people out of captivity to the life He promised them…of course they end up messing that up (but who of us hasn’t messed up something that was supposed to be a blessing from God?!). It’s a really cool story, and if you don’t know it…go read the book of Exodus…I digress.

We get to the part of the story where Moses sees the burning bush (ch. 3). Moses kind of sees it, and then realises that this bush is on fire…but not being consumed! So he looks at it a little more closely, and what follows is an incredible encounter with the God of the universe:

When the LORD saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses! And he said “Here I am.” Then He said, “Do not come near here; remove your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground” (Exodus 3:4-5)

The point Brett was making out of this passage in relation to our moral failures is that we need to humble ourselves before God when we are coming out of that. It’s a great point, and is 100% true. When he shared the verse though, he kind of paraphrased it in a cool way that set my thought wheels in motion. He (Brett) said something to the effect of:

“What God is saying to Moses here is “Hey, show some respect before you come here, because you’re about to experience something the likes of which you’ve never even heard of. Me.”

I just thought it was really cool to picture God saying it this way.

A lot of time we’re going, going, going, with something that we think (and may be) God inspired, but at some point we take Him out of the loop. True Life? WE CAN DO NOTHING WITHOUT GOD, THE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE, WHO KNOWS OUR EVERY THOUGHT!

Whatever it is that we feel God calling us to do we MUST humble ourselves at His feet if we have any SHRED  of hope of succeeding. When we pray for guidance from Him, we had better make sure that it is with a heart that knows how unworthy we are of His love.

Yet He gives it anyway.

For me, tonight, that is my deepest desire. That I would develop a more humble attitude toward what God has given me, and allowed me to do/part of, and what He is about to allow me to be a part of. As I embark on my Mission Year, I hope that I experience God in such a way that it would be something the likes of which I have never seen.

 

Learning all the time,

David

 

(Sorry this was longer than normal, thanks for giving it a look. I hope it got across the point that I had in my head)

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