Daddy is Dancing!
Zephaniah 3:17 Adonai your God is in your midst— a mighty Savior! He will delight over you with joy. He will quiet you with His love. He will dance for joy over you with singing. (from the Tree of Life Version of the Bible)
Can you see it?
Are you in Abba’s arms… whirling and twirling… with Daddy’s eyes only on you!
He’s looking at you… YOU, His son – His daughter… perfectly created from His spoken vision of you before there ever was a world to play you in (Psalm 139).
He’s delighting in you with the joy of a parent who is madly… MADLY in love with you – you are the gift He gave to Himself.
Can you hear His song? The music is beyond “foot tapping”, It is WORLD CHANGING and you… YOU, dancing with Daddy… is the reason for all of creation rejoicing.
Isaiah 55:12 “For you will go out with joy And be led forth with peace; The mountains and the hills will break forth into shouts of joy before you, And all the trees of the field will clap their hands.
How do you get on God’s dance card? Or more accurate, how do you get God on YOUR dance card?
Step into His arms.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
His arms are open… Jesus’ arms were nailed to the cross so that Abba’s arms could freely receive YOU as His prince/princess – the stars of love in His eyes.
Our triune God, Father – Son – Holy Spirit, stand together with arms outstretched and inviting you to… “Come and dance with the Great I AM!”
Will you turn and reach your arms out to be picked up and held?
Will you submit to being wrapped in the arms of God and held tight for the dance that will last into eternity?
When the Holy Spirit quickened my mind (and then my soul… and finally my heart) with the Words of God above, and gave me a version of His word that would not let me keep it on the peripheral of “Bible Study”, I realized I knew so very little about WHO my God, my Abba, my Daddy, IS!
I was raised with the view that put God on THE throne. True, but remote.
I was raised with the fear that I WOULD NEVER be good enough. True, but impossible to overcome.
I was raised with a vision that God was ALWAYS READY to smack my hands. Definitely deserved, but it only inspired me to run – not to submit to His discipline.
I was raised with just enough truth to cause me to RUN AWAY AND HIDE!!!!
It wasn’t until Jesus showed me the real VIEW of the Father, that I could even begin to WANT TO BE or choose to become a child of God.
My view of God, the one a church unknowingly taught me, was a view of a monster who couldn’t wait to torture me in mind, body and spirit, only to judge me as a sinner deserving of hell and damnation. A “parent” who wanted me to believe it was all and only for “my own good”.
The church taught me about Jesus but never introduced me. They (sinners just like me) brought me right up next to the hideous and horrendous event, even made me “kiss” the feet on a plastic crucifix to insure I would always KNOW… and, bless their hearts, that I would always be enslaved to my identity as a MURDERER OF JESUS.
Perfect love casts out fear?
God so loved the world?
My view… if He would do this to Jesus, His Son, who WAS/IS/ALWAYS WILL BE sinless… what will He do to me?
Yep, brought me right up to the cross and “forgot” to teach me what to do with it! (Maybe they taught but I was done listening by the time they got to THAT lesson)
But God…
Jesus sought me… and taught me… and bought me… He told me THE TRUE STORY! He came and got my attention. He spoke and I began to listen to Him.
John 14:7 If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also;
John 14:11 Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me;
It took awhile… but then came my AHA moment…
Psalm 103:12 As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us.
From beginning of time God, our triune God, loved us soooo much that He (no air space between the three He(s)) knowingly and in spite of knowing every event between creation and eternity, said… “Let us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness;”… God blessed them… God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. (Genesis 1)
God had has a plan for us…
Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.
And NOTHING… will stand in the way of God’s plan!
Well maybe one thing…
You… me… someone not wanting to DANCE!
Can you see it?
God saying to His angels… Luke 15:22-24 ‘Quickly bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet; and bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat and celebrate; for this son of mine was dead and has come to life again; he was lost and has been found.’ And they began to celebrate.
There will be some… who, for all the wrong reasons… the little boy (or girl) who will turn and walk away from Daddy’s open arms.
Can you hear him/her mumbling… “I NEVER get to dance!”
And God, with tears in His eyes (Jesus wept – John 11:35) says…
“Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him (Revelations 3:20)
But… even if when we refuse Him…
Our God doesn’t stop delighting over us with joy…
Our God doesn’t stop quieting us with His love…
Our God doesn’t stop dancing for joy over us with singing…
Our God doesn’t stop preparing for His child to come home…
1 Corinthians 2:9 but just as it is written, “Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, And which have not entered the heart of man, All that God has prepared for those who love Him.”
Listen to the music of heaven… Daddy is dancing… AGAIN and FOREVER!
**All Scripture quoted comes from the “Bible Gateway” app and is the NASB version of the Bible