July 14, 2006
friday...
I am going home. I have researched the sermon. I have a dozen books in hand. I have been reminded of David's political manouvering and how the Ark played into that. Does anyone remember that God really did not want the Temple built? Anyway, it is a curious thing to wrangle with because I don't like to think that Uzzah's death was an object lesson. But maybe it is something to consider. Perhaps if not an intentional action on God's part to kill Uzzah, David nonetheless missed the point as he got nekkid and danced around to "play" before God.
God is nothing to be played with. Our vocations are nothing to be played with. Faith is serious. God is serious business...loving and gentle and perhaps even fun, but as Lewis suggests, this is no tame lion.
Okay, right...I will see you later. Bye!
Dancing before the lord....hm.
well michal is just uptight! i mean, david did get to be king, even tho he's sort of a prick.
jews still do lots of "dancing before the lord."
i mean, on simchat torah, the day we celebrate the torah and gods giving of the torah, people get down and dirty with the torah! i mean people are running all throughout the synogauge with noisemakers and little torahs! its a jewish (not to sober) mardi gras without the beads, but with kippot! i think the concept of "dancing before the lord" comes out of oppression. you have miriam and the israelites singing and dancing once the egyptians are drowned in the red sea and theyre free from slavery. we dance at purim, when the jews were saved by esther and mordachai (thankk you babylnian fairy tale) from haman and achashverosh (xerxes....)
jews are big on dancing.
my favorite is when someone goes to touch the ark and the ground opens and swallows them. thats cool.
plus, when israel is like, god! we want a king!
and god's like "no ya dont."
and israels like, pshaw!
ad gods like "fine. but youll be sorry!"
and we are.
dont get too caught up in the more modern Xtian view of "judgemental, angry god in old testament" yeah he smites people who touch his junk, but thats a humility thing. perhaps a people's cultural thing left over from the days of worshipping ba'al and el....non-communal access to god and his temple.
::shrug::