To what can I compare this generation?
They are like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to others:
“We played the flute for you, and you did not dance . . .” Matthew 11:16-17a
How sad, that so many “did not dance.” Likewise, C. S. Lewis, when speaking of God not being a static thing, but His being dynamic, pulsating with life, added that God was, “Almost, if you will not think me irreverent, a kind of dance.” Why would we have to think C. S. was being irreverent? God is, as revealed by the fruit of His Holy Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness! So, when Jeremiah spoke (v 31:4) of the everlasting (faithful) love and kindness of God, he encouraged the people of God: “go out to dance with the joyful.” In other words, show your joy, get reverent: Get Up—Get Out—Get to Dancin’! Hallelujah!
When the Prodigal Son (see Luke 15:25-27) came home to his father, the joy of “music and dancing” was heard! Music and dancing wells up and gushes out as a spring of life when someone comes home to the Lord. As we see someone come home to the Lord—it is time to dance! When we see deliverance—it is time to dance! When we see God’s miracles—it is time dance! With God in us, it is time for loud music and dancing! Hallelujah! Get Up—Get Out—Get to Dancin’!
God’s loving promise of hope in Christ Jesus is why we rise to dance. God did not invent the pew, we did. God created hands to be lifted in praise and feet for joyful dance! Use what God has given you! My prayer is that the body of Christ plays the song of hope in Jesus; we are the flutes to be played in the marketplace, everywhere; when our music is heard and the lost come home, then, our joy explodes with dynamic, pulsating life as we reverently: Get Up—Get Out—Get to Dancin’!
Rreverently Dancing,
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