Honey hung up the phone. “Guess what?” she said. Too excited to wait for my reply, she blurted out, “Becky is going to pay for the disc jockey at our wedding. Isn’t that great?”
Her words were like ice water being poured over my spine. My holiness teachings jolted me into a catatonic stiffness.
Noticing my discomfort, she asked, “Don’t you want dancing at our wedding?”
Oh no, I thought. What do I do? My bride to be wants dancing at our wedding? Isn’t this what Israel did while Moses was up on the mountain? They rose up to play and dance (Exodus 32).
The Lord seems to love taking a sledge hammer and banging away at my rigid religious stances. It’s almost as if He concocts these situations just for me. I think part of His reason for doing it is that He wants to change me; and the other part is that it is so much fun for Him and Father. He delights in it.
What did I do? I prayed and studied the Bible.
The party and dance put on by the father for his prodigal son’s return in Luke 15:25 loosened me up a little bit. Yes, this was not a wedding, but at least, it was indicative of a joyful celebration.
Then, I meditated on Jesus’ first miracle: the turning of water into wine at the wedding in Cana (John 2:1-11).
The six stone waterpots of water being turned into wine works out to about a gallon or so of wine for each guest. A gallon of wine each. A wedding feast. Music. Celebration. No matter how I hard I tried, I could not imagine Jesus sitting off to the side at a table with his disciples and not participating in the celebration. I believe He jumped in and kicked up His heels with the other celebrants.
We are now in the midst of March Madness, the NCAA basketball playoffs. The final four has even been dubbed “the Big Dance”, but I believe they’re absolutely wrong. The Big Dance will be the Marriage Feast of the Lamb.
If you’re wondering about me, I will be out on the floor, strutting my stuff with my Bridegroom, my Husband, Jesus, the dancing Son of God. And you? What will you be doing?
…a time to mourn and a time to dance. (Ecclesiastes 3:4)
Swimming Upstream appears at this blog site on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. It’s a little of this and a little of that, all written to encourage and exhort believers in their Christian jouneys.
Larry Who 
already dancing! cindy
LOL!
You know its funny a friend of mine were just talking about verse 6 last night…
Now there were set there six waterpots of stone, according to the manner of purification of the Jews, containing twenty or thirty gallons apiece.
It amazes me that Jesus in His very first miracle does it by making one heck of a statement… using the pots used by the religious order of the day to… make NEW WINE!
Just think about that for a while and if that doens’t make you dance… well….
Just dance! LOL He is WORTHY!
Larry,as a young Christisn,I would watch as believers at times would enter into joyous dance.I said in my heart,’Lord I would love to do that,BUT I would not want to be in the flesh’. He answered me by saying,’Well you never will then’.’Why’,I cried. He answered,’To dance in the Spirit,you must move in the flesh twice,you must move your flesh[pride,fear of man,doubt,SELF awareness,]out of the way,and then move your flesh, to step out in faith,to praise Me in the dance’. I’d like to say I stepped right out,but,it took about 15 years for me to finally be so caught up in Him,that I could forget self and step out.It is wonderful,when it happens.I came from a lot of the same back ground Larry,but not from my Grandma,she was a dancer. {read Dancing In His Light}I could use a good dance today….
Cheryl
cindy, ronni, cheryl,
Thanks for the comments. See you at the Big Dance.
At the Big Wedding Party in the sky, He’s going to toss me in the air, then we’ll twirl, then waltz, then enjoy a soft shoe, followed by a good tap, and do a Fred & Ginger routine or two or thousand.
As for the here and now, He and I have fun off stage and on the kitchen tile.
jane,
Good use of visualization in your first paragraph. It’s fun to think like that.
Better get brushing up on traditional Jewish dance, because the armies of heaven will be staring in awkward silence if you try that breakdancing crap.
🙂
Ha ha ha! What about the robot? Lol! Or can I walk like an Egyptian? Lol!