The Dance part 4
Here's my advice: Dance your own dance and don't worry about what other people think about it. God made you... and He made you YOU. He put a song in your heart. He created you for a purpose. You have an EPIC destiny. An Eternal Purpose In Christ. I read somewhere that the two most important days in your life are 1. When you're born and 2. When you find out WHY you are born. Now listen: On the one hand we all have the same EPIC destiny. We are all here to be loved and to love each other with that love. But love takes many shapes and many forms. God IS love, and God defined Himself as, "I am that I am." Which means, "I will be what I want to be." Or, "I will be whatever you need me to be." Here's what I'm saying: Just be yourself. Don't try to be anybody else. You can't do it. Nobody can live Jesus' life except Jesus. That's what's so glorious about the gift of eternal life: It's not US living HIS life. It's HIM living His own life in and though and as us. That's what it means to present your body as a living sacrifice. Just let Jesus do whatever He wants to do... in you. And don't worry about what anybody else says about it. If you're moved with compassion and motivated by love then you can't fail. Because love never fails. Look at this story in 2 Samuel chapter 6. Verse 14 tells us that, "...David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod." David was dancing before the Lord because he was all fired up about bringing the Ark of the Covenant back to the people of Israel. He was being himself--David was a musician, and a dancer--for the Lord. And look at what happened: "And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart" (2 Samuel 6:16). Somebody who was sitting on the sidelines, not doing anything, got mad because they saw someone else doing what was in their heart to do. People will always criticize you, no matter what. Even when you're doing something unto the Lord. ESPECIALLY when you're doing something unto the Lord. I don't know if it's jealousy, or what, but it seems like the better you're doing the more people there are that despise you for it. David's response: "And David said unto Michal, It was before the LORD, which chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the LORD, over Israel: therefore will I play before the LORD" (2 Samuel 6:21). Basically David said, "Don't worry about what I'm doing. I know that I'm where I'm supposed to be and I'm who I'm supposed to be and I'm not concerned with what you think about it!" That may seem a little rough, but I've come to the place in my life where, if you don't care enough to ask about what I'm doing or why, then I don't care what you think about it. I can't dance your dance and you can't dance mine. There's a song in my heart and there's a God who is love dancing over me and with me and in me. That's what this journey, this life, is all about. Learning and growing and living and loving!