Can God dance?

Of you they say: You are the God who never eats, who never wines, who never smokes, who never sleeps.  How will you even sleep?

How can you afford to even doze, with all the billions and billions of people all over this problem-filled world dialing your number, buzzing you, harassing you, disturbing your peace, your heavenly bliss and solitude?

The poor and the rich alike, calling your numerous names, praising you, cajoling you, thanking you, begging you, disturbing you every day, every hour, every minute, every second, in supplications, in prayers?  All those prayer warriors in holy garments, fighting aggressively to get your ears in all manner of tongues, mingling prayers with songs and spiritual incantations.  All those voices, trying to reach you with praise songs.  All the voices of earth, competing with the celestial voices of angels to get your attention in praise worship contests.  May you forever be praised, Jehovah, our good God, our King of kings and Lord of lords, the Creator of this beautiful, musical universe where music blares and blares non-stop!

Indeed, our God is a lover of good things, a lover of good music.  And what is good music, if it cannot make you dance?  If it cannot make you shake your body and dance in bliss as if in a trance.  There is truly a spirit in music that compels one to dance.  Can God dance?

I was reading the philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche the other day and I came across a quote by him which says: “I would believe only in a God who could dance.”

I am not a follower of Nietzsche but I read him all the same.  I read everybody.  Every writer has to read.  Just like every athlete or soccer player has to run to keep fit.  For a writer, reading is everything.  If you want to be able to write well and dance with beautiful words, you’ve got to read, men.  Dance is the poetry of the soul.  You’ve got to read as a writer, as a poet, as a wordsmith, to write well and to dance well.  Reading makes you creative, just as music makes you creative on the dance floor.  Read my brother, read.  Read, my sister, read.  Read anything.  If it is this Holy Book that you can lay your hands on, read it, and meditate on it night and day, if you want to get wisdom to be successful in life.  Even as a preacher, I’ve got to be creative, in order to get attention.  I am looking for attention, with this sensational piece titled ‘Can God dance?’  Don’t call me a blasphemer.  I am not.  I can never be.  Because I too, I pray before I write for God to inspire me to write well and to dance well.

In the Bible, Salome, the daughter of Herod danced so beautifully that the king asked her to name anything and he would give her.  And guided by her mother, Herodias, she asked for the head of John the Baptist.  Nobody will ask for your head this year for any cause, for any reason, in Jesus’ name. Nobody will kidnap you or kidnap your family member with the kidnappers asking for ransom running into millions.  Nobody will cut your precious fingers and send them by post, all in the name of looking for money.  You will sing and dance for the Lord every day of your life, this year, every year till my Father calls you home.

I believe God can dance because He created dance.  He created dance to make us happy in our times of sorrow.  Oh, there is nothing like a good dance.  It was Count Christoph Keysrlighk who wrote: “The day man forgets to laugh, the day man forgets to be playful, the day man forgets to dance, he is no man.”

If there is one thing the secular world has in common with the spiritual, it is dance.  We dance, we party everywhere.  At the disco, at the nightclub, at home, in church.  Nowhere is too sacred for dancing.  Dancing is one of the reasons we go to church.  It’s so beautiful and so inspiring to watch the people of God dancing for God, dancing all their troubles away before the Almighty, dancing to glorify their Maker.  There is nothing to be ashamed of, when it comes to dancing for God.

In the book of I Samuel, the Bible records how King David saw the Ark of God and was inspired to dance crazily for God, unashamed.  It was the same David who wrote in Psalms that God has turned “my mourning into dancing.”  Whatever is your problem today, God will turn it into dancing.  God will make you dance.

Dancing is an expression of joy.  And I say to you this day: Celebration will not cease in your homes!  You will dance for a newborn baby.  You will dance for moving into a new house.  You will dance for your promotion at work.  You will dance in church on your Thanksgiving Day.  You will dance at the marriage of your children.  You will dance when your children hand you the key to a new car and a new house.  Dancing will not cease in your home, in Jesus’ name.  The God of dance will dance with you.  Now you can understand what I mean by God dancing.  Yes, God can dance.  God will dance with you.  And you will dance with God in triumph, in victory.  Women in black will not dance about town with your picture nor with your wife’s picture, nor with your children’s pictures.  It is not your portion.

Can God dance?  Yes, He can.  If you read the Act of the Apostles 16:25, when Paul and Silas were jailed and they were singing and dancing and the Holy Spirit came to break their chains and set them free, you will understand the meaning of God can dance.  God dances each time the captive is set free.  God dances each time a weaker team scores against a stronger team.  God dances when justice defeats injustice.  God dances when righteousness cover unrighteousness.  God dances when truth exposes lies.  In Nigeria where we are afflicted with days and nights of heat and darkness, God dances each time NEPA—or whatever they call themselves now—brings light and people shout with joy: “Praise, the Lord.”

This is the only country in the world where people dance when electricity is restored after 40 days and 40 nights of darkness.  May the God of light who said at the beginning that Let there be light and there was light, help us with this terrible darkness afflicting our country.  A darkness that defies solution.  This is the kernel of my message today.

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