We are at NASCAR Championship week in Avondale, AZ. Last night there was a lot of joyful noise!
It was the parade of all the big trucks that haul the racecars to the track. Campers lined the streets to hoot and holler for their favorite driver and the truck drivers accommodated with blowing their air horns.
Lots of joyful noise – lots of celebration – lots of grateful people!
It’s a natural reaction to make noise when something makes you happy. People yell and cheer at sporting events, in fact, in all the years we attended rodeos the announcers would encourage us to “cheer ’em on, make some noise”, and that’s what we would do.
Little kids love to make noise. Each of my children and my grandchildren have sat on my kitchen floor with pots and pans between their legs, banging on them with spoons or spatulas and been the stars of their own one-man-band.
Why should it be any different for those of us who are God’s children? We should be making some noise and celebrating our relationship with our loving Father.
“Shout praises to the Lord, everyone on this earth. 2 Be joyful and sing as you come in
to worship the Lord! 3 You know the Lord is God! He created us, and we belong to him; we are his people, the sheep in his pasture. 4 Be thankful and praise the Lord as you enter his temple. 5 The Lord is good! His love and faithfulness will last forever.” Psalm 100 CEV
Did you see that phrase, “He created us, we belong to Him, we are His people, His sheep”? Those are amazing words!
We belong to Him – we are His sheep! We know from reading Psalm 23 how He takes care of His sheep. He provides us with rest, food, water, protection from our enemies, and He sends goodness and mercy to follow us all the days of our lives.
That kind of loving care is worth shouting about!
If someone carrying a football across the goal line or someone hitting a ball out of the park or someone driving their car across the finish line first is shout worthy, our Father and our God is certainly worthy of shouts of praise.
Come on family – let’s make some joyful noise!