Charles Spurgeon über "Dancing David"

2 Sam 6,20-22
Und als David zurückkehrte, um seinem Haus den Segensgruß zu bringen, ging Michal, die Tochter Sauls, hinaus, David entgegen, und sagte: Wie ehrenwert hat sich heute der König von Israel gezeigt, als er sich heute vor den Augen der Mägde seiner Knechte entblößt hat, wie sich sonst nur einer der ehrlosen Leute entblößt! 21 Da sagte David zu Michal: Vor dem HERRN, der mich vor deinem Vater und vor seinem ganzen Haus erwählt hat, um mich zum Fürsten über das Volk des HERRN, über Israel, zu bestellen, ja, vor dem HERRN will ich tanzen. 22 Und ich will noch geringer werden als diesmal und will niedrig werden in meinen Augen; aber bei den Mägden, von denen du sprichst, bei ihnen werde ich in Ehren stehen.


Charles Spurgeon predigte 1888 über diesem Text und überschrieb die Predigt mit:
“David dancing before the ark because of his election” (delivered on Lord’s day morning, July 1, 1888 at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington).

Spurgeon begründete David’s überschwengliche Freude mit der Erwählung Davids durch Gott. Sein letzter Punkt in der Predigt ist besonders stimulierend:

“A SENSE OF DIVINE ELECTION WILL EXCITE SACRED ENTHUSIASM.
David had an inward delight in God. God was his exceeding joy. Personally, I have overflowing joy in the doctrines of eternal, unchanging love. It is bliss to know that the Lord has chosen me. When I am down very low in spirit, I crave for those old books which, like the Lord Jesus, are full of Grace and Truth. You who are at ease in Zion can do with the chaffy modern theology. But when your heart is heavy, and especially when your conscience is under a sense of sin, you will want these two dishes on the table—Free Grace and dying love—and you cannot do without them.
We must have an atoning sacrifice and Free Grace to make us partakers thereof. I cannot give up the Doctrines of Grace, for they are my life. I do not so much hold them as they hold me. The five fingers of the great Doctrines of Grace have enclosed my heart. I can die. But I cannot deny the imperishable Truth of God. The doctrine of the eternal choice gives forth joy as myrrh and cassia give forth perfume May you all know it!
In David’s case his inward peace boiled over in holy excitement. Before the ark he was singing, he was harping, he was worshipping and at last must show it by the joyful motion of his body. His body danced because his soul danced. […]
As Michal would not come to lead the way, as she ought to have done, David did it himself. I think I hear him as he sings and shouts and sings again. I think I see him throwing his whole soul into the joyful motion with which he expresses his exulting joy. Election sets the soul on fire with enthusiastic delight in God. Certain doctrines would not make a mouse move one of its ears. But the grand old Doctrines of Grace stir our blood, quicken our pulse and fill our whole being with enthusiasm.
They make me “feel like singing all the time.” Free Grace wakes me up at night and makes me wish that I were a nightingale. And all day long it makes me wish that I were an angel, that I might never cease my praise. O my Friends, let us praise the Lord—

“Come, give all the glory to His holy name,
To Him all the glory belongs;
Be ours the high joy still to sound forth His fame,
And praise Him in each of our songs.”"

Amen!