Dancing With Great Abandon

In sunday school the other day we were learning about the Israelites and how they mistreated the Ark of the Covenant. After Uzzah was killed for trying to keep it from sliding off of the ox cart, David became very angry and just left the Ark at the house of Obed-Edom. God greatly blessed the house of Obed-Edom for 20 years, and when David got news of this blessing he went to bring the Ark back to the City of David, but this time, David wanted to do it right. So they began the meticulous process of getting the Ark into the city. They took their time, and had frequent sacrifices the whole way home.

David, ceremonially dressed in priest's linen, danced with great abandon before God

Michal, Saul's daughter saw this, and the Bible says that her heart filled with scorn. This is where sometimes we as sinners come in. We see others dancing and singing praise, and sometimes we get angry. Why should they be happy when I'm not? Why are they celebrating when everything around us is bad?

Well, David returned home and met his wife and daughter and Michal decided she would confront David...

"How wonderfully the king has distinguished himself today—exposing himself to the eyes of the servants' maids like some burlesque street dancer!" David replied to Michal, "In God's presence I'll dance all I want! He chose me over your father and the rest of our family and made me prince over God's people, over Israel. Oh yes, I'll dance to God's glory—more recklessly even than this. And as far as I'm concerned...I'll gladly look like a fool...but among these maids you're so worried about, I'll be honored no end."

David realized that he had been called to do something, and he was going to do it with all his might. My favorite part is, "Oh yes, I'll dance to God's glory - more recklessly even than this." And that's how our atitude should be when we're the ones dancing. No matter who mocks us or gets us down! Our atitude should always be, "I'll dance to God's glory."

As for those of us who have been like Michal, the passage ends with...

Michal, Saul's daughter, was barren the rest of her life.

II Samuel 6:3-23 - The Message

Ref II

Once again the fate of the US National team was decided by a European who hates our guts. I don't care who they are or who we are, call the game fair. It's what your being paid to do, idiots.

Ref

OK, so if they can't even get a fair ref in the World Cup, How do we expect to get a good ref at school?

UGH

There is no thing worse than a friend telling you he'd call in an hour to hang out. and not calling for 3 hours. ugh

Convicting. Encouraging. Amazing.

You all have to read this story on ESPN. First of all I can't believe they would post such a long story about this, but it has to be from God. The thing has scripture all over it, and the testimony of this NFL coach is amazing. Go read and be encouraged like I was!


Amazing Grace

Silent Anticipation

30 minutes until the greatest event in all of sports. The next month is heaven. Soccer is life.

Boa Noiche!

Back from Brazil with bells on. It was a trip and a half is all I have to say. I will expound more on it in a later post, but I want to take a short oppourtunity to praise God.

The trip seemed slow spiritually at first. Real slow. But once again, God came through with a miracle. The last Wednesday we were there we spent at a church. We gave our testimonies, sang our songs, and one of the guys on the team preached.

The service was over and we went on with our business. We played some soccer, and a few of us left and got groceries.

I came back to the church and there was the pastor! He was talking to coach, and when I walked up to them I found out this amazing news:

There were three first time visitors in the service. After the service they had some basic questions. Well, after the pastor answered their questions, he went through the plan of salvation with them. All three of the people were gloriously saved that night! It was so refreshing!

I praise God for his many blessings! I will hopefully be posting some journal entries from my trip soon. :-)

Thank you all for your prayers.