Passion...

That was somehow today's theme for me.

It starts off with me starting off the day by taking my Bible from the shelf and praying to God for "a verse that can last me some meaning for the next 24 hours". So I ended up at the story in 2 Samuel where King David was brining back the Covenant Box to Israel. At the later part of the story, David was praising the Lord, while they were almost arriving at Jerusalem with the Box, by embarassingly dancing around wildly with 'only a linen cloth round his waist'.As the Box entered the city, a woman named Michal, who was the daughter of King Saul who was defeated by David earlier on, looked out her window and saw the king dancing around like a mainiac, 'and she was disgusted with him.' So after the celebrations, when David wanted to visit his family, Michal came out to meet him.

"The king of Israel made a big name for himself today!" she said. "He exposed himself like a fool in the sight of the servant women of his officials!"

But in 2 Samuel 6:21-22, David's response was rather relavant to Christians who don't really have the passion for God like they should. For those without a Bible, it says in the Good News Bible Version that;

21David answered, "I was dancing to honour the Lord, who chose me instead of your father and his family to make me the leader of his people Israel. And I will go on dancing to honour te Lord, 22and will disgrace myself even more. You may think I am nothing, but those women will think highly of me!"

If it makes things more familiar, I can quote from New International Version (By now, you might have deduced that I've got more than 1 Bible, 4 in fact);

21David said to Michal, "It was before the Lord, who chose me rather than your father or anyone from his house when he appointed me ruler over the Lord's people Israel - I will celebrate before the Lord. 22I will become even more undignified than this, and I will be humiliated in my own eyes. But by these slave girls you spoke of, I will be held in honor."

What stuct to me in these two verses was that 1) David knew that he was suppose to be a highly reguarded person (King, wat?), so his embarassment was 'double' on him, 2) He still wanted to continue the embarassing act, which he didn't take notice on how embarassing it was, and honour God instead, 3) He already knew it was embarrassing, but would still embarass himself further at his own expense, just to praise the Lord, and 4) He had the confidence that no matter what Michal thought of him, other people would respect his actions.

Shouldn't we Christians also have the same attitude with worshipping Christ? No matter how high our social reputations can be, or what others say on how weird we look, sound or respond with God, we shouldn't be ashamed about Him but praise Him more instead. Besides, there are other Christians out there going through the same thing, and would understand what you're going through. So what makes you any different from them? JUST PRAISE HIM!

For the entire day, I played only Christian songs in my PC while doing my homework and making sure it get's finished by today. In honour of Christ's doing from G'd Fri to Easter. May type a bit more about the signifigance of this period (Good Friday - Easter Sunday) tomorrow...

Btw, 'You'. Don't worry, I got rid of the number already.