During another Merkt family jam session (this entails some music and me dancing around like a fool while my kids gracefully dance in our living room) I noticed something. You see I got tired in the first 10 minutes and had to stop. I sat down and watched my 3 youngest raise the roof. What did I notice you ask? I noticed that while my 9 year old daughter did her pirouette she was staring directly at me, eyes locked on mine. While my 4 year old son did his super punch fanny shake he stared right at me, again his eyes locked on me. While my 2 year old daughter did her herky jerky super groove she also stared right at me. You see this was all for me. If I was not watching their dance did not serve a purpose. It was all about pleasing me. I managed to work a bobble head swivel staring at one of them with each beat giving them the feel I was watching their every move.
If only they were girded with their linen ephods I am sure they would have looked much like King David in 2nd Samuel chapter 6. Their eyes sparkled amazingly. Like David dancing before the Lord, they danced with all their might before their father. It was all to please me, and if I happened to get distracted and look away they lost their vigor.
What a picture that is. I could not help but feel inadequate to my own Father. If only I danced with all my might expecting God to be watching my every move and want nothing more than to please Him, to see His approval; how much more could I accomplish for Him? If I spent every breath trying to please Him, expecting Him to watch me; what could I accomplish? I could be doing things that really matter, things that will last for eternity. However the world manages to grab my leg. My dance becomes a struggle, a self indulgent zombie walk through Satan’s land. I find myself trapped in his games when I could be dancing for my Father and see His smiling face back at me. A Father who would never get distracted and look away; rather one who is faithful to the end.
Let us dance before The Lord (with or with out our linen ephods) trying to please Him with our every move, every minute of every day for the rest of our lives. How could we go wrong with that being our goal?
About Me
- Paul Merkt
- Subscribe to A Fighting Chance Ministry by Email I am 31 married with 4 children. My wife and I were both raised in the world with little to no Christian background. We both learned the truth of Christ while we were married and it has radically changed our lives. I have started a ministry called A Fighting Chance Ministry, in hopes to give people a fighting chance when it comes to them making their decision about eternity. I have recently quit my full-time job in faith to spend more time on my ministry which focuses on on-line evangelism. I still have a part-time job and a couple small businesses but they need to grow, or the ministry or I will be looking for work again by the end of 2008. My children are 13, 8, 3, and 2. My youngest daughter was born with out a left hand and my ministry has expanded to reaching out to families with similar unique situations.
2 comments:
Hey, buddy, great blog! Keep sharing the faith, ´cuz u shall be responsible formany saved lives! God bless you!
Paul, I see by all of your writings here you are really talking the talk.
I had some recent interaction with you not following through on an arrangement when I furnished something you really had to have and now not you are NOT paying a debt owed for that. In fact you are ignoring my requests completely.
SO my question to you is are you walking the walk and really behaving like an Honest Christian? Would Jesus be proud?
You should be concerned about Delightful Karma, as Karma can actually haunt you if you mess with it. Please pay me my $200 as you said you would and play straight.
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