This One Thing I Do… I Dance the Two Step!
Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:13-14
Forgetting the dance I’ve learned in life and Reaching to dance with Jesus like never before… forgetting and reaching, forgetting and reaching.
If I don’t FORGET, I simply pick up where I left off with the song in my head, and wonder why my dance life doesn’t really change.
We all try to change our ways but it is no different than changing the route on your GPS, it’s the SAME destination, just different roads. Our destination remains the same no matter the route we CHOOSE to go.
We believe God does the same thing. When He “catches us” in sin, He simply calls us out and sends us on His detour. But God doesn’t just detour us around sin. As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us. Psalm 103:12 He removes the road entirely! There is no destination called Fixing your Sin Problem if Jesus paid your debt and destroyed the bill. (“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. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. John 3:16-17)
We too must REMOVE our bumpy roads and detours around our sin(s) and take the only road to God’s destination.
We must realize that “sin” is NOT on God’s radar. He’s NOT focused on sin at all since Jesus said, “It is finished!” He’s not setting a virtual sin trap on our way to Him in order make us pay a fine or sit in jail until we do.
What is He focused on? What are we to “reach for”? What goal – destination should we program into our hearts and minds in order to follow God’s Positioning System, which is His Word (Who became flesh and dwelt among us).
God’s GPS is The prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus… the upward call of God found fully in Christ Jesus! (these things I speak in the world so that they may have My joy made full in themselves. John 17:13)
Do you hear what I hear? The beat of the music – forgetting, reaching – dancing the Two Step! FORGET your moves, REACH for and let JESUS LEAD!
Talk about dancing with THE STAR! Do you hear the music Jesus hears?
An upward call… lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son, that the Son may glorify You, even as You gave Him authority over all flesh, that to all whom You have given Him, He may give eternal life. This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. John 17:1-3
The prize for dancing…
The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world. John 17:22-24
We worry so much about judging the dancing of ourselves and others, that sometimes we fail (haven’t laid hold of it yet) to head toward God’s goal for us… dancing with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit… eternally.
Having taken care of the problem that kept them from dancing with us (sin), They are ready (right here, right now) to take us in their arms and dance to the music of the heavenly choir.
Shall we dance?
Forgetting what a terrible dancer we used to be, let us reach forward to step into the arms of our Eternal Dance Partner. Let us press forward in learning to dance His dance… the Dance of Love!
The perfect Two Step!
We love, because He first loved us.(1 John 4:19)
Forget what lies behind and reach for your Dance Partner… ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ Matthew 22:37-40
Let’s dance!
**All Scripture quoted comes from the “Bible Gateway” app and is the NASB version of the Bible unless otherwise noted.