Say what? SHOUT? How ilreverant? What about the scripture that tells us to be still and know that He is God? Over in the book of Ecclesiastes, chapter 3, we find there are appropriate times for everything. Ecclesiastes 3:4 tells us that there is a time to laugh and dance. I’ve laughed and I’ve danced and there was usually some shouting going on. Right?
In the book of Job, thought to be the first recorded book in the Bible, and we’re told in Job 8:21 that God, “will once again fill your mouth with laugher and your lips with shouts of joy. In Job 38:7 we find that, “all the angels shouted for joy!” During the animal sacrifices in Leviticus 9:24, we see the people shouted for joy and fell on their faces. As the Isrealites carried the Ark of the Covenant they, “shouted with joy so loud that the ground shook, in 1 Samuel 4:5. Kings 1:40, records when the people followed Solomon into Jerusalem there were, “people playing flutes and shouting to God so joyously that the earth shook again.” 1 Chronicles 16:32 says, “let the sea and everything in it shout his praise, and crops burst out with joy! Finally, In Ezra 3:13 we find “the peoples joy shouting could be heard far in the distance.” And all of this shouting happened in the Old Testament. We have Jesus! Isn’t He something to shout about?
Take note to Alexander MacClaren’s statement on joy: “The out-and-out Christian is a joyful Christian. The half-and-half Christian is a kind of Christian that a great many of you are~~~little acquainted with the Lord. Why should we live halfway up the hill and swathed in the mists, when we might have an unclouded sky and a radiant sun over our heads if we would climb higher and walk in the light of His face?”
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