Don’t Let Anyone Spoil Your Celebration …
2 Samuel 6:20-22 (New Living Translation)
20 When David returned home to bless his own family, Michal, the daughter of Saul, came out to meet him. She said in disgust, “How distinguished the king of Israel looked today, shamelessly exposing himself to the servant girls like any vulgar person might do!” 21 David retorted to Michal, “I was dancing before the Lord, who chose me above your father and all his family! He appointed me as the leader of Israel, the people of the Lord, so I celebrate before the Lord. 22 Yes, and I am willing to look even more foolish than this, even to be humiliated in my own eyes! But those servant girls you mentioned will indeed think I am distinguished!”
Yesterday could have been a bad day had I let it become one. I woke up on Sunday and I was sick, so when I woke up yesterday morning to find that I was still sick, after taking every homeopathic and holistic medication that I had on hand I was not exactly pleased. Then one top of that my mom yelled at me over the phone, which hardly ever happens, because we have such a good relationship. Then I had been on the phone for hours with a bank that had funds transferred into them on my behalf that they could not find. Then the icing on the cake was I was emailing a friend and they misread or misinterpreted something I was saying or the manner in which I said it. I could have been fit to be tied up. But instead, I talked to God all I could hear was the words of the song “celebrate, good times come on”… I began to laugh, because God has such a sense of humor. The first thought was this was not a good day. But then I thought of the alternative and I thought about the mandate on my life and the people God was removing out of my life for various reasons and the new friends he was allowing to become a part of my life. I had to celebrate. Because out of all of the people in all of the world He choose me…My life may not be pretty to most, but it is a story of overcoming power and a God that loved me and continues to love me passed my pain, and order every step that I take to encourage someone else!
It is funny to me that people and situations can make us lose our focus and our ability to celebrate our God and our lives more often than naught. We become so affixed on foolishness, that we forget to celebrate the victories and the things we have been delivered from and the blessings we have been given. Especially those who are close to us can cause us to become unfocused if we let them. They can begin to ridicule and pick apart, things that we do and how we do them. They can even scrutinize our worship, to the point that our celebration becomes an inquisition rather than a moment to honor God and celebrate who He has made us and is making us. If David had let His wife hinder his praise and his celebration, she could have become a stumbling block, one that made him take his eyes off of the true source of His victories, but because David loved God with all his heart and He refused to let anyone get in-between him and His God he was able to dance before the Lord and honor, praise and worship Him, without any inhibition. It also gave him enough confidence to see that God had placed His hands upon His life and that was an irreplaceable event that caused His life to be blessed and highly favored in a way that others were not!
No matter what seems overwhelming, or not matter how many things go wrong today or any other day. Do not let these things take your ability to see God and His mighty hands upon your life. Don’t allow anyone or anything to take your victories and reduce them to nothing. Don’t let anyone take your praise, your worship or your anointing and reduce it down to something less than what God has made it. Celebrate the God in you and the God working through you. Remember God choose you, anointed you, is prospering you, is setting you apart. Not the one down the street or across the church, He is doing it for you. Celebrate that!
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