I am so excited to head out to church today! Help me Lord to respond to your goodness with passion. Let me be loud and unashamed about my love for you. Make my heart free and unburdened so that I can be lavish in my praise.
We have been redeemed and we need to say it! We have been freed and we need to rejoice loudly!
I love how my son dances. I love how he fills up with so much emotion that he takes off running and does a lap around the living room, dining room, and kitchen in order to release the joy inside him! Last week I listened to a YouTube commercial for a Pure Flick movie that was pretty hilarious. A minister was getting on his congregation and wife's nerves because whenever he got filled with joy over God, he performed "a David" and ran around the church pews rejoicing. The church and his family were very embarrassed about his exuberance. I have not watched the movie, but I think it ends with the pastor moving to a church where people could appreciate his enthusiasm and love for God and I'm sure his family came around too. Either way, my son's and this movie pastor's outward expression of the joy in their hearts was inspiring. They were a reminder to let the joy in my heart be seen outwardly.
Psalm 107 talks about all the things the Lord did for his people. Salvation, freedom from slavery, safety from danger. It shows how our souls needed something more that could not be filled by our earthly desires. God satisfies our thirst and hunger and we need to say so!
Psalm 113 was my scripture reading today. I loved it so I'm just going to copy it here:
I love how my son dances. I love how he fills up with so much emotion that he takes off running and does a lap around the living room, dining room, and kitchen in order to release the joy inside him! Last week I listened to a YouTube commercial for a Pure Flick movie that was pretty hilarious. A minister was getting on his congregation and wife's nerves because whenever he got filled with joy over God, he performed "a David" and ran around the church pews rejoicing. The church and his family were very embarrassed about his exuberance. I have not watched the movie, but I think it ends with the pastor moving to a church where people could appreciate his enthusiasm and love for God and I'm sure his family came around too. Either way, my son's and this movie pastor's outward expression of the joy in their hearts was inspiring. They were a reminder to let the joy in my heart be seen outwardly.
Psalm 107 talks about all the things the Lord did for his people. Salvation, freedom from slavery, safety from danger. It shows how our souls needed something more that could not be filled by our earthly desires. God satisfies our thirst and hunger and we need to say so!
Psalm 113 was my scripture reading today. I loved it so I'm just going to copy it here:
(1) Praise ye the Lord. Praise, O ye servants of the Lord, praise the name of the Lord.
(2) Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth and for evermore.
(3) From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the Lord's name is to be praised.
(4) The Lord is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens.
(5) Who is like unto the Lord our God, who dwelleth on high,
(6) Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth!
(7) He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;
(8) That he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.
(9) He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the Lord.
Sometimes I feel like running and twirling just like my son. God has blessed me in so many ways and has promised to do so much more. It is exciting! I don't necessarily want to perform "a David" and be an embarrassment, so at church today I will settle for jumping up and down in one place and singing at the top of my lungs. If your heart is so inclined, jump and shout and be loud with me! God is so good!
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