COME AND DANCE WITH ME

Prov.8:30,31 – And I was daily His delight,

Rejoicing always before Him,

Rejoicing in His inhabited world,

And my delight was with the sons of men.

It can be quite awkward for some to express their love and emotions toward the Lord. Simple things become stumbling blocks; things like lifting up of the hands, vocalizing your love for the Lord, and maybe the most awkward – actually dancing with the Lord. Apparently this passage of scripture is about exactly that, the Father and Son expressing their love for one another in some sort of eternal dance. If we were honest maybe this is really what our hearts yearn for; to be free from our fears and like little children respond in all kinds of worship and acts of affection toward the Lord. The Father and the Son have a profound and eternal love toward one another. The Father loves the Son and there appears to be a rejoicing or a celebration of this love that is beyond anything we have experienced in this world. C.S. Lewis calls it a dance, a full on celebration of their love for each other. Here is how Lewis describes this.

“And now, what does it all matter? It matters more than anything else in the world. The whole dance, or drama, or pattern of this three-Personal life is to be played out in each one of us: or (putting it the other way round) each one of us has got to enter that pattern, take his place in that dance. There is no other way to the happiness for which we were made. Good things as well as bad, you know, are caught by a kind of infection. If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet, you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. They are not a sort of prizes, which God could, if He chose, just hand out to anyone. They are a great fountain of energy and beauty spurting up at the very center of reality.

If you are close to it, the spray will wet you: if you are not, you will remain dry. Once a man is united to God, how could he not live forever? Once a man is separated from God, what can he do but wither and die?”

This dance is a celebration of the oneness that Jesus prayed for in John 17, “that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me”. This union is why Jesus came, that we could enjoy the love from the Father that Jesus has enjoyed from eternity. So here is where we get past all of the awkward stuff, respond to His voice, “Will you come and dance with Me?”