Excitement.
That’s what a party barn is all about. A place to let our hair down, to pump our enthusiasm, to elevate our adrenalin until we’re breathless with happiness.
Motocross racer Mike Schultz lost a leg in an accident in 2008. Seven months later, he’d designed a prosthetic leg allowing him to get back on his bike and ride again. He’s since won four X Games gold metals using his new proprietary Moto Knee. What drove Mike to get back on his bike and ride again? He says he needs the adrenalin rush, that feeling of danger that comes just before he hits the gas and sends his bike soaring through the skies.
Motocross is Mike’s party barn. He has to have it, and it leaves him feeling better than before. To Mike, it’s worth risking his life, because without it, he’d have no life at all.
Colossians 1:16 describes God’s party barn:
“For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.”
God gets jazzed by us. He finds excitement in this world filled with his creation: the animals, the rocks, the sky, and all the living creatures he’s put on this planet. This is where he lets his hair down, the place that pumps his enthusiasm and gives him an adrenalin rush. Just visit an old-time Southern revival. Feet stomp, hands clap, and there’s more praises lifted to the ceiling than we can shake a Southern stick at.
We don’t think God gets excited at that? Whoo-ee! It’s time for some of that old-fashioned religion, the kind that’s good enough for our grandparents, and that’s good enough for us.
If we want God to join in our worship services, we need to open our party barn doors. We need to jump and shout for him. He gets excited in us. That’s why King David praised with his tambourines. He found his connection to the Father through praise and “gettin’ down.” He had the key to the Master’s heart. He discovered that God comes to party with us when we make the effort to party with him.
God takes joy in his creation, and that means he finds special joy in us.
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