Dance!

When God celebrates over us, He sings and dances in heaven. When we celebrate here on earth, we sometimes tap our feet, jump with joy, or wave our fists in the air. It's all the same, we are made to experience Joy and we are made to Sing, and we are made for Dancing.

From when I was healed of my self-rejection, and self-induced shame, I was freed to dance. And though it took a long time to come out of my shell, I had come to realise that God is pleased with my dancing. It's one thing to celebrate something as big as redemption, salvation, forgiveness, and everlasting love, by standing with one or two hands held up, and another thing altogether to do what we are made for, and that is dancing.

Just so you know. I have labored 3 hard years trying to learn dancing, much shorter than the years I tried to learn to clap to the beat or to sing in tune. I don't have what the world calls "musical talent" because I can't keep a beat, and I can't keep a tune. So what then, do I call dancing? It's mostly just moving the way your body demands to move when it is excited, full of joy and feeling the music. It doesn't have to have waves, steps, popping, specific styles and cultures, no. It doesn't have to please the physical eye. We aren't worshipping one another. If anyone is looking at you during worship, they're looking at the wrong place! No, dancing is just an extension to singing, and it is just what God wants to see in His people. You simply cannot stand in a pew and "celebrate" the Risen King! The second you get into it, your knee will surely hit the pew in front of you, and you will stop short in your celebration. If possible, find a nice quiet space, and just dance!

It doesn't have to be "hot", or "sassy", or anything.. simply put, I'm 100% sure that God has His goofy moments too, and when we go up to see Him, He will surely enjoy dancing with those of us who "cannot dance" in the way that the world expects to see, because our focus isn't on the world. It is on Him!

So I challenge you, brothers and sisters. Don't live up to the world's expectations. Don't judge yourself or reject yourself based on what you think is "appropriate". Think hard on how a child would act upon anticipating Daddy's return. Or simply, watch this video of a real baby waiting for Daddy, and doing a happy dance when he sees Daddy pull into the driveway.

Cuz worship is now. And worship is our audition for our dance in Heaven. So get with it =P And yes, it's thrice as satisfying to shake off the judgement and rejection, and dance than not.