Dance with all your might

I love pressing the praise button once in a while. Sometimes, we get so involved with many things and we tend to lose sight of praise. All work and no play, they say, makes Jack a dull boy. I believe a Christian lifestyle without praise makes one a dull person. God’s praise should be part of our lifestyle including our health and well-being. Dancing is one way we praise God. Dancing itself is a form of aerobic exercise as it improves our flexibility and raises our heart rate. The higher the dance tempo, the better. 

Wearing a linen ephod, David was dancing before the Lord with all his might (2 Samuel 6:14)

In 2 Samuel 6:14, David shows his praise moves with dance. The verse states that, “Wearing a linen ephod, David was dancing before the Lord with all his might.” David was indeed moving all his body including hands and legs. To dance with all of one’s might will not be nodding just the head, or tapping the feet. It would be all-encompassing. His dance was so spectacular that his wife Michal, despised him for dancing like any vulgar fellow: “As the ark of the Lord was entering the City of David, Michal daughter of Saul watched from a window. And when she saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, she despised him in her heart” (2 Samuel 6:16). David was a praiser and dancing was one of the ways in which he praised the Lord. 

When we praise the Lord by dancing with all our might, God gets the praise and we get our bodies active. Why don’t we try to press the praise button this weekend with a dance unto the Lord.