The storm is upon us and pounding against our windows, as we listen to its beat we can hear a bit of rythym in the rain… so I thought it’s time, as our friend Tammi says…. to DANCE LIKE DAVID DANCED!
And while we are at it… what would you do if you were dancing with Jesus? I thought would I be nervous? My answer…Yes I’d be nervous!!! But, would I dance? I said…yes I would dance. Pondering that, my mind drifted off to what it would be like to do that dance… the sound of His laughter and the assured encouragement in his kind eyes and the “You got this” smile that would let me know I was doing well, so keep on dancing.
So, I thought to pass that on that we all got this storm thing and we just need to keep on dancing all the way into the Kingdom of God. Laugh along the way at life itself, and find joy in our loved ones and be thankful for all that we yet have. The gift above all gifts is the gift of the Holy Spirit and eternal life. Now that is something to praise and dance about!
I was talking with some friends a few months back and the conversation led into when we get to heaven and one said, “When we get to heaven and everything is so good…will we be bored?” We all laughed. But he was serious. He said, “I mean if we don’t have to labor like we do now, and we have perfect bodies, and what will we do?” We all got quiet and began to think about that. He added, “I mean it will be great for a while…but if things are so easy… what if we get bored after a while.”
I said, “I’m sure there will be things and gifts we are given that will keep us busy.” Another said, “Maybe we will build things and have another mission in going to helping other creation?” As we began to brainstorm ideas…we came up with God will have assignments for us, to we will be singing and happy and ended with it won’t matter, what matters is getting there. And of course I threw in my famous…”I want to look up Enoch and ask him a bunch of questions.”
So, my friends…I ask you… what do you think we will do in heaven? Will we be tending the garden like Adam and Eve did before they were curious? Will we find sheer delight in having free things to do? And lots of free things available? If so, what would those be?
DANCE, DANCE, DANCE!!!
I am thankful to have lived to watch our President call the fake news liars out. Are you?
This one’s for Tammi…..SMILE WHILE YOU DANCE!
Keep on pressing into the kingdom of God! Press, Press, Press and Dance along the way!
Dianne
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I want to spend as long as I am allowed time to sit at the feet of Jesus.I want to absorb everything about the way He looks,speaks,laughs.I want to see the way His eyes sparkle when He looks at us.The Joy that calms the mind and the absolute absence of fear.I want to breathe the essence of His Love.I want to sit and talk about all the things that He cherishes and why He loved us the way that He does.I want to know Him in the infinite way that He knows us.I know it will take an eternity just to begin to understand,but this is my great hope.
Amen.
Dianne thank you for all the music, so uplifting. And all of you who post such wonderful testimonials, so encouraging. At 80 y/o I got up and danced and it felt good. I will play these video clips when I feel down. How wonderful Heaven will be.
Amen!!! Keep on dancing with the Lord. Smile.
We can enjoy the birds and animals I’m a bird lover
Reading hrough Gods Word daily my understanding of what “Heaven, Paradise, garden of God”; it will be “VERY GOOD! That’s all I need to know while we journey this foreign land….
I’m smiling!
I too have pictured myself dancing with Jesus! I want to feel His heartbeat next to mine. I can’t wait!!
I’m sure will won’t just be sitting on our laurels. We will be tending garden’s, feeding the animal’s, and listening to Jesus speak. Oh, how I love Him. ❤
Blessings to you and all.
Uplifting and Joy is right…thank you …thank you…thank you!!!!
Funny…I have had the conversation of what heaven will be like with a number of people. If God asks me what I would like to do in heaven, I will tell Him that I’d like to care for the children. We’d have dance parties and use our imaginations. Even though I’m not too artsy, I’d come up with fun projects. Whatever it is like, it will be so wonderful. God is good!
Amen. The stories we share on the way there are forever in our journey log, written down and recorded.
I will volunteer to help with the children, arts, crafts, and games.
When I was a very small child, I always had a recurring dream or maybe it what I thought of before sleep. I dreamed I was in heaven taking care of babies in bassinets under a tree. Later I wondered if they were the children I have now. Maybe god let me visit with them, while I was still small.
God
Heaven is a physical place. The writers on Scripture present heaven in many ways, a City, a Kingdom, a Country. These are familiar to us to help us understand.
I started reading, (65 books so far), after I lost my son and granddaughter (one month apart) in 2011. Then my husband passed in 2012. I had a drive to know more about heaven.
We are NOT as Plato led us to believe just spiritual beings in a body. Adam did not become a living being until he was both body and spirit. (Gen 2:7)
Yes we will work in heaven, when God created Adam he told him to work and take care of it. The curse which we live under now makes work menial, it is a painful toil and by the sweat of our brow. Jesus said in John 5:17 he is still working. “ My Father is always at his work, to this very day, and I too am working.
Heaven will be a whole new life experience without the being under the curse.
Jesus said, “Welcome, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a FEW things, now I will make you ruler over MANY things”.
We can only imagine the work we will do.
Charles Spurgeon said, “Christian, meditate much on heaven, it will help thee to press on and to forget the toil of the way. This vale of tears is but the pathway to a better country; the world is but the stepping stone of a world of bliss.”
Amen! Loving what we do is key to never wanting to stop doing it.I like the “over MANY things”…. there will be variety! Focusing on what the Father has planned for us is uplifting and exciting! To know all tears are wiped away…is priceless. Amen.
Beautifully written Melissa!
My sweet husband said he thinks my job will be living and tending to the animals, because I love all animals so much! What a sweet and pleasing thought. God game him to me, no doubt about it.
Amen! All animals are so beautiful and filled with personality. Imagine being able to hug a lion or a big bear. Smile.
I have hugged a tiger
In an envisioning session, I did dance with Jesus in heaven. I do not think boredom will be an issue in heaven. For example, how much will we know when we get to heaven? Would you like listening to Paul, the Apostle, about his visit to the seven congregations in Greece, or Isaiah about what it was like living in the kingdom of Judah, with and eye-for-an-eye legal system before the Messiah changed all that. How about to Ezekiel and what he really saw in the first chapter of his book. Food for thought – how many think we are the only ones out in space. How about helping them ascend to heaven the same way you were helped.
I just can’t understand anyone Not loving our Real President Donald J Trump! I watch his dancing on stage and he’s got some real moves 😂🇺🇸😂🇺🇸😂🇺🇸 Got to Love him!!!
I imagine heaven to be a place of everlasting joy and worship and never considered what my job would be until Dianne posed the question to me a while back. It is a curious question to think about and the Bible gives us a few answers if we look with eyes to see. I can’t wait to hear the words of Matthew 25:21, “Well done good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make you a ruler of many things. Enter into the joy of the Lord.” It’s a good thing I like to be busy because it sounds like I am going to be exponentially busier as a ruler of “many things”. I can’t imagine what tasks I will be assigned in heaven but I can’t wait to find out. Somehow, I have been preparing for this new job I never knew I’d have my entire life. I was chosen for this job before Adam and Eve ever fell from grace and entered the garden. I was chosen for this new job before work was a burden that came with the bite of the apple. So, I can be sure that this work will not be tiresome or hard. This new job will enrich my new life and will be something I love doing. The job will be an extension of my everlasting joy and worship in the New Heaven and the New Earth. You know what I can’t wait to do? Dance with Jesus! I am practicing for that amazing dance every day like a bride anxiously awaiting her groom. When I am dancing, I often wonder how David danced. What steps did he do? Was it spinning or stomping? Leaping and twisting using his whole body to worship the Lord? I have prayed to be shown how David danced and I have discovered that the how of it isn’t the important part. It doesn’t matter what kind of dance David did. What mattered is why he was dancing. I don’t really understand why, but I have learned that God really really really likes it when I worship Him with my whole body and soul. I don’t even have to think about what moves to do because it just comes to me – it comes over me. It is a special thing, to dance for the Lord. I encourage you all to do it today. Do it everyday! Dance until the Lord comes to take us to the wedding! Practice your First Dance because it’s going to be the best and most important dance we’ve ever done! Oh how I can’t wait to dance with Jesus! Oh what a glorious day that will be!
I took care of my mom as she went through cancer and I remember having talks with her as she would fall and I would put pillows under her head and a blanket over her until her hospice nurse would come to help pick her up, as we talked about Jesus and throughout our talks I always knew my mom loved the Lord, but when she first came to stay with me she would say, crying Tina I’m not ready to go be with Jesus and I would say mom let’s just take it one day at a time and see where the Lord takes us but by the time she got to a certain point of her last week before going to be with the Lord I went in to give to her the usual 6:30an meds and it was her/I’s last conversation she said Tina, I’m ready to go be with Jesus now and what I realized at that moment was the Lord brought her here to prepare her heart through our conversations to trust him because throughout our talks laughing/crying talking about heaven and Jesus I watched her heart being opened to him in such a Beautiful way and I saw with my own eyes through her how the Lord cares about every aspect of our journey in every way! The Lord gave me a scripture immediately after she past and I had it put on her headstone Proverbs 14:30 A heart at peace gives life to the body. One of our laughter’s was she would be dancing with Jesus 🥲, I have No Doubt she is! I don’t cry when I think of my mom, I Smile
Thank you Tina. I had similar experiences with my parents in their last days. My Dad was always skeptical of “religion” and the Bible. He slowly started to listen to me when I shared God’s Words of reassurance about heaven as his condition deteriorated. He called me back into his hospital room one night when we were leaving after a small family visit. He wanted me to know that there was an angel in his room. I asked where, and he pointed to an empty wall, saying, “Can’t you see it?” I said yes, because, even though I couldn’t see from a physical sense, I could feel God’s presence, it was very strong, and it still reminds me that in a short time, we will all be able to see and fully experience the entire un-seen eternity with our Lord.
My Dad passed away a few hours later, and I knew he was with the Lord. I wish everyone could experience what you did. How wonderful our world would be with that awareness of where we are going (or not going). And who knows, today’s events might even point people back to God, and many of us will realize we were placed here for such a time as this, to witness to them, and share God’s love with them.
Absolutely! Ty
Yes Tina thank you.
As my dad was dying I heard him mumbling so I turned around and looked at him. He hadn’t spoken in two day’s.
He had his hands in the air and smiled. I asked him whom was he talking to and he said,”you don’t see them”. He said it was mom, dad, and Stevie. Stephen was my older brother which I was born on the same day a yr later, who passed at 5 month’s. I told him to go with them and we will take care of mom. He looked at me and said,”Forgive me” and he passed.
What a beautiful experience for me. I will never forget it.
Yes, God is so Faithful!
Tammi your enthusiasm for the Lord jumps off the page here. It is such a joy to dance with you and Jesus! Imagine holding hands all in a circle with others, laughing, smiling and lifting up our praise to the heavens. Amen. Keep on pressing, dancing, and believing! The wicked ones have come with a basket of rotten figs and many are getting ill from eating them. Turn aside from such rotten fruit and dance, as you say…. like David! Keep inspiring others…you have a gift for it. Smile.
Amen Tammi! Thank you for quoting that verse — “Well done good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make you a ruler of many things. Enter into the joy of the Lord.”
You are right, we have so much to look forward to.
I believe that there will be much to do in Heaven. I’d guess a lot of learning and creativity, joy and music.
Psalm 118:24 This is the day, which the Lord hath made: let us rejoice and be glad in it.