Dance For the King

So every Sunday morning I have the amazing opportunity to step into my church, hang with some amazing children and worship my Lord without the risk of persecution, a luxury that most of the global church does not have.

On Sunday I was able to stand beside a beautiful six year old girl and we worship together. The musical worship was wonderful that morning; partly because it was the youth band and they generally pick really good and more upbeat songs and because I could look down and see a delighted smile on this girls face. Since it was more upbeat it was really easy to sway to the tunes and kinda move around a bit. It was super cute because when I started moving so did she and it was simply wonderful because although she could not sing the words she could worship with her body.

As  I was looking around, I saw two youth sitting at the front. For the song that we were singing we were standing and it was an upbeat song but OHH MY WORD!! They looked like the two most bored people I have ever seen in the whole world. They looked completely still and zoned out other then the fact that their lips where moving to the words. This was a pretty big contrast to what me and my friend were doing.  I continued to look around and saw some people who you could tell were enjoying themselves but others who kinda looked like them... Super Bored.
 

Now if I flew over any of the choirs that we met in Cameroon, their jaws probably would have dropped at the sight of my congregation. This is the one thing about Cameroon I miss the most; them dancing. Now I can't dance and suck at keeping any kind of rhythm still a little boggy for my King I think would not be a bad thing. Every time we went to church in Cameroon we were up on our feet dancing and singing praises to the King!

It makes me sad to think that we have this stigma in our church that we can't dance or clap before our king while we worship. I keep remembering David and how he dances naked (now I am not saying go this far... NOT APPROPRIATE!) because he was so delighted in his King. When we go to worship I think we need to remember who we are worshipping. Yes God gave us bodies to do his work and help others but we should worship with our whole bodies. For some this may mean to stand still in awe of him but for other its means to dance before him. Something that has been lost in our Church's today.