UPDATE to yesterday's video post....

I need to add to a statement that I wrote in yesterday's post in regards to the amazing video that I referenced. In the last paragraph of the post I wrote, "THIS video captures the essence of how my spirit soars when I worship God!" This morning the Holy Spirit urged me to make the following additional note:

What I need to clarify is that in NO WAY did I intend, by my statement (above), to correlate my worship of Christ to the dancing by the main character of this video, but what I connectecd with, while watching this video, was the spirit of the children who were filmed.

To me, the children in many of the shots of the video, displayed a pure and abandoned JOY in their dancing! I would venture to guess that, perhaps in some of the situations of their dancing, the children may not have even spoken enough English to fully comprehend what the intent of the videography was, but simply joined in a group of others who, in unrestrained freedom, were freely dancing and having fun! Now, I haven't had the opportunity to research the background of this video throughly, but I assume that the main character of the video, a man who traveled the world and danced at every location he visited, was simply dancing for the sake of 'performance' and entertainment. (which was, by the world's standards, a very interesting presentation in itself). To entertain or to worship for 'performance sake' is NOT what I encourage or experience, nor is that my purpose when I worship the Lord. In contrast, while watching the video, I clearly sensed that the children who were filmed were, with purity and innocence, simply dancing for sheer delight and joy! It is with the this same innocence, abandonment and freedom that I love to dance, move and express myself as I worship Jesus!

While I am not always in a church family that celebrates and worships Jesus in the freedom and abandonment, as I prefer, nonetheless, if my heart is right and I am prepared and 'fit' for worship, my spirit communes with Jesus and worship is sweet. On many occasions, I enter into worship in my own home, dancing and praising God in ways that many would term, well...."pretty weird"!

I relate my worship experiences and preferences with you as encouragement to every reader. I urge you, when you worship, and you sense the Holy Spirit rising within you, to allow the Him to express, through you, free and abandoned worship our Lord, Jesus. I have found such great joy and blessing when worshipping Jesus, "in spirit and in truth". May you each experience the Lord's deepest blessings as you worship Him....EVERY DAY....ANYWAY!