How Do I Please God?

“David said to Michal, ‘It was before the Lord, who chose me rather than your father or anyone from his house when he appointed me ruler over the Lord’s people Israel—I will celebrate before the Lord. I will become even more undignified than this, and I will be humiliated in my own eyes. But by these slave girls you spoke of, I will be held in honor.’ ” – 2 Samuel 6:21,22 Yesterday, I shared that King David viewed dancing, praise, singing, and music as acts of worship before God. As David led the return of the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem, he danced with his whole heart before the Lord — even though it was beneath a king’s dignity. His wife, Michal, a princess and daughter of King Saul, was the first to object. She came from a culture of royal decorum, where kings looked and acted like