I Dance with Danger

Dancing With Danger

Have you ever been in a dance that held the sense of the utmost urgency? Maybe danger slipped it's way into this dance, maybe a lot is riding on this.

Dancing can hold a Aura of gracefulness about it, something enticing and drawing in about dancing. Sometimes you want to sit back and stare with your jaw gaping open, and other times you may want to jump into the dance to experience it for yourself.

The dance I'm talking about can look hypnotizing, graceful, elegant, and a dance that draws you in even as you stare at it. Each second that ticks by is a second closer for you to join in on this dance of danger. This dance isn't a dance to be envied, though many of us will still look at it and think to ourselves, "I wish I could do that. Maybe I can. I will."

Let me tell you, it doesn't help that you think you are a bystander in this dance. You are really already allowing your feet to move and your mind to go off with the dance and the nasty music.

I have danced the dance of danger, it is not a pleasant dance. It's a shameful dance. The worst part of the dance are your dance partners though. Mine where/are Pride and anger. They are very challenging dance partners, and quiet dangerous when paired together. One may play off of the other to draw you further into the dance floor and further away from God.

I have a feeling I'm not the only one who's danced with both of these dance partners. I mean, look at Moses.

He was in the presence of God and there where times when the Israelites would grate his nerves so much that he would angerly lash out. Example: He had two stone tablets that God had put the ten commandments on and when moses comes down he sees that the Israelite's are worshipping a golden cow they made from their Jewelry. In anger he broke the tablets and had to rebuild them by himself.

Oh, what about the time that he was supposed to make water come out of the rock, but got irritated when the people and hit it instead.

Moses Anger caused him pain. Do not doubt that. At one point God tells him because of his actions (acted on and strike at by anger) he would not be able to walk into the promise land. He would die in the wilderness with the other Israelites.

Sin costs.

It costs a lot.

So God sent his son to save us from the failures that this Dangerous Dance would lead to. God saved us with his blood. God died for us. Don't disrespect that. Don't pursue this Dangerous Dance.