Let’s read aloud together:
2 Samuel 6:21b-22 NIV
21b I will celebrate before the Lord. 22 I will become even more undignified than this…”
1 Chronicles 16:31-36
31 Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad;
let them say among the nations, “The Lord reigns!”
32 Let the sea resound, and all that is in it;
let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them!
33 Let the trees of the forest sing,
let them sing for joy before the Lord,
for he comes to judge the earth.
34 Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;
his love endures forever.
35 Cry out, “Save us, God our Savior;
gather us and deliver us from the nations,
that we may give thanks to your holy name,
and glory in your praise.”
36 Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel,
from everlasting to everlasting.
Then all the people said “Amen” and “Praise the Lord.”
“In David’s utter abandonment to dance and in his liturgic, social, royal extravagance, a new order is authorized, wrought out of unrestrained yielding and worship” (Walter Brueggemann). When we approach God in reverence, the joy we experience in prayer can now take any shape.
Prayer: God, all of creation celebrates before you. Thank you for sending Jesus our Savior to die for us, so that we can live in this freedom and joy to worship you. In Jesus’ name, amen.
Let’s sing, “Heaven Invade” by Kari Jobe (click here).
-AW