The Honored Dancer

           "And David danced before the Lord with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod."(2 Samuel 6:14)  As King David celebrated the Ark of God, his wife Michal despised him.  She attacked his character and integrity.  She said, "...How glorious was the king of Israel to day, who uncovered himself to day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself!"(2 Samuel 6:20)  David responded, "It was before the LORD...therefore will I play before the LORD.  And I will yet be more vile than thus, and will be base in mine own sight: and of the maidservants which thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honour."(2 Samuel 6:22)

        David was all in.  His heart was 100% with God! His wife Michal was half-hearted.  She did not approve of the king's level of worship. Jesus described being whole-hearted in Matthew 13:44-45, "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.  Again the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it."

        Jesus described a woman whose heart was 100% with God in Mark 12:41-44, "And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury: For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living."

        Are we all in today?  Does God have all of our heart like King David or are we like the critical Michal, who was half-hearted and not wanting to go to far in worship?  Are we seeking the approval of man or the approval of God like King David, the honorable dancer!?