Dancing In Humility
Here indeed is pure and real religion: faith so joined with an earnest fear of God that this fear also embraces willing reverence, and carries with it such legitimate worship as is prescribed in the law. And we ought to know this fact even more diligently: all men have a vague general veneration for God, but very few really reverence him; and wherever there is a great ostentation in ceremonies, sincerity of heart is rare indeed (Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin, 1960, p43, originally published in Latin in 1536, emphasis mine).
One of our pastors recently preached on 2 Samuel 6, and I happened to read the above text shortly after.
In 2 Samuel 6, David removed his robe and every other glory and danced humbly before the LORD. There was no ostentation.
Michal, David’s wife, despised David in her heart. She expected him to show his own (not God’s) strength and power and glory as he (not God) brought the ark back. She expected him to be like her father Saul.
But Saul had no sincerity of heart. And David was a man after God’s own heart.
What do you think?
Joseph
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