Undignified

"David, wearing a linen ephod, danced before the Lord with all his might, while he and the entire house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouts and the sound of trumpets."

Now keep in mind here that David was King. He took off his kingly outer garmets. His wife was so embarassed and said he was being vulgar. David's response: "I will celebrate before the Lord. I will become even more undignified than this, and I will be humilitaed in my own eyes."

David didn't care what other people would think. He didn't need to be "above" others, even though he was the king. He just wanted to celebrate the Lord! Sometimes I think about what other people will think of me. Sometimes I just want to dance and sing for the Lord - but people would think that I was undignified. David didn't care - he didn't mind being humiliated. It's not about me, it's about Jesus and praising him for all he has done. It's about being so passionate for him, and not worry about what other will think of me. Now David's wife thought that the slave girls would think he was like other vulgar men. On the contrary, he would be held in honor by them. So when we think that others are thinking poorly of us as we celebrate Jesus, remember that you never know who will see Jesus in a whole new way because of you.

When I first heard this song it I didn't really like it. Something about it sounded disrespectful - until I re-read this story about David. When I realized it was right out of scripture it made so much more sense. Laying my pride down to just celebrate Jesus.