We are wrapping up our David sermon series this month and I hope it has been as challenging and rewarding for you as it has been for me!
The 2nd week of the sermon series we talked about how David danced undignified. I felt God leading me to write an article about how we can live our lives undignified. I love to write about how to be practical in the things I preach, even when it comes to more spiritual subjects.
So, how do we be more undignified in our life?
When David danced, it made his wife, Michal very unhappy and she thought him to be undignified. She did not understand that David was worshipping God because (we can assume)she didn’t believe.
This happens to us Christians even today in our daily lives when we demonstrate any effection toward God. People that have not found Christ don’t understand why we live our lives undignified, foolishly going after a God who sent his son to die for our sins! Its unfathomable to some people to put aside their own pride to humble themselves to God and His plan for their life. This, unfortunately is something that we Christians struggle with too. Sometimes daily.
To be undignified means to act foolish and to not care about what others think of you or even care about your pride. The reason we need to live our lives like that is when we accept Christ, our lives are no longer about us... they’re about Christ and what He wants for us. Our goal is to show Christ to the world, not make ourselves look good to the world.
We all struggle to do this sometimes or more often than that because of this broken world we live in. Its hard to not care about your pride when our world is focused on opinion instead of fact. We have fact (a standard) that we find in the bible, but the world doesn’t live like that.
We all have an opinion about everything. Our doctrine, politics, how we parent, our favorite restaurants, etc, and people have an opinion of you.
Our God works in truths, not opinions. He gives us right from wrong, lays out good and evil, the Word and what is opposition to the Word. So if we operate in the mindset that we’re focused on God and His truth, then He becomes our firm foundation that nothing can shake and other people’s opinions of us does nothing to us. We begin to not care about our pride and when people see us, they don’t see a prideful person, but a man after God’s own heart like David.
It can be hard to live undignified, and I’m not saying that you need to start dancing foolishly at work or in public. It might start with something like talking to a coworker about Christ… something that brings you of your comfort zone. It might be praying with someone or reading scripture to someone who does not know Christ.
God has a plan for your life and our pride with always hold us back! Even after we are saved, it will still hold us back!
We can live our lives for an audience of one and it will change our life and the lives of people around us.