God of the Dance....

Had a very interesting morning today, went to watch a movement exam for performance arts students. So amazing seeing all the different performances that came out. With some potraying a lovers' spat, others a story of a mother and child. Others the path from hatred to forgiveness. But I think the most interesting of all were the words spoken by the lecturer at the beginning. He explained that the perfomances we were going to see were not stories people came up with and then dances ensued. It was more of dances and the way people expressed the dance routine told a story.

I think its like that with God and our lives, he gives us a blank routine and says dance.  Just looking at those students today started me thinking on my own dance. How people have perceived it so far, was I getting across the message I wanted to. I guess its given me a whole different perspective to my life. Gives new meaning to the verse, "... you are the salt of the earth." The purpose of salt is just not for enrichment, but its there to preserve. The church, you and me, we are ".. the hope of the nations", and it all starts with our dance.

Maybe you are like me, you forget that the world is a stage and whatever is in our hearts will flow to our limbs and to our routine. Whats in your heart today, is it a career, a lover, a position or is it JESUS. Sometimes we are forgetting who we are dancing for. Lets remember who god is in our lives. Was listening to a song called By Your Side by Tenth Avenue North and just the following line sums up for me what God says to us when we start dancing for the wrong audience:

 

Why are you looking for love
Why are you still searching as if I'm not enough
To where will you go child
Tell me where will you run
To where will you run

Love peace and happiness

Tau