Dancing in Obedience

Dancing in the rain. Dancing in the ocean. It all is obedience to God.

Sitting in team time listening to the rain hit the tin roof of the church checking in with the team, I saw an image of myself just dancing in the rain.

So, when my turn in check in came around I said, “I am so antsy right now, I just want to jump up and dance in the rain.” But I really didn’t think much of it until I heard the Lord say, “go dance then.”

And in all honesty, I was a little scared to just jump up and dance, and so I didn’t. And the rain started to fade away and that image I saw of myself dancing in the rain began to fade as well.

And I realized that the Lord, no matter how small or silly dancing seemed, was calling me into obedience.

Going to dance in the rain was less about the act of dancing but more about the obedience to the Lord and the joy that He was going to bring me through that obedience.

It was a reminder that obedience to the Lord requires faith that his goodness is far greater than my understanding. So fast forward a couple of minutes and I pray, “please give us some more rain, I will go dance, I will listen, I want to dance in the rain.”

The acts of obedience to the Holy Spirit, no matter how small, prepare our hearts to have the greater yes and a greater desire to say yes to the goodness that comes from obedience to the Lord.

Skip a couple of days to debrief with the whole squad in Jaco. Lilly Renn, Ella McCook and I are down at the beach having a night-time worship night for the squad 24-hour prayer and worship time.  And while we were sitting in the sand, I heard the Lord telling us to go worship Him at the edge of the ocean looking into the vastness of His creation.

So we did, we ran down the beach and jumped, worshipped, and danced in the ocean remembering the goodness of the Lord and being obedient to His voice. Feeling freedom in living as daughters of the King.

Dancing in the rain and in the ocean happened a couple of weeks ago, but I was reminded of what it looks like to carry obedience to the Lord and remembrance for what He has done in tandem while studying in Judges this past week.

The Israelites’ obedience to God was half-hearted and when He delivered them from the hands of their enemies, they were not people who lived in remembrance that God saved them from their enemies.

I want to be a person who is obedient to the Holy Spirit and a person who remembers what goodness that obedience brings.