unHOLY Fridays: UNinhibited

Often on a Sunday morning during the time of musical worship, I'll see kids dancing, jumping, shouting.  They are excited.  They are not worried about who is watching. They are not worried about looking stupid. They have no worries in that moment. They are present in that very space doing what kids do.

Now, I'm sure we could take this into a direction that wonders whether or not they are "worshiping" in the sense that when you are 3, 4, 5 years old what can you/do you comprehend in this way. But I think they do. I think that in the simple understandings that they have, they are worshiping and it is sweet and wonderful.

In fact, I think this kind of uninhibited worship is part of what Jesus points to in Matthew 18. He talks about becoming like little children to get into the Kingdom of Heaven. And then such a great line by Jesus that is packed with so much: "So anyone who becomes as humble as this little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven."

It was kids who had no position and no rights in Jesus' day. They were submissive to their elders and meant to obey. They didn't try to climb the ladder of success because what would the point be in trying? They were "lowly" kids. And as such, what did they have to lose?

When we having nothing to lose, we become uninhibited. We stop worrying about who's watching, how we look, that we might screw up. We can worship with our whole lives. We can run and fall like a kid learning to run - and that's okay. We can let the crumbs of our feasting for God stick to our faces.

But there is importance in remembering, it is our humility that makes us child-like, not our immaturity. God wants us to grow and flourish - but in an incredible uninhibited way.

Be uninhibited today.