The Hokey Pokey is what it is all about because the Bible tells us so!

Ok so in my last blog I hinted that there would be a blog about the "Hokey Pokey", and here it comes!

Listen to the song and get it fresh in your head. I am sure everyone has heard this more in their life than they want to, but one more time will not hurt! But I bet most of you have not heard one quite like this one I am using only for the humor portion of it!

Sorry about the title of the video! Trust me it was better than most of the very funny ones!




Deuteronomy 6:4-5
“ Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:

And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

Unfortunately far too many of us do not put our whole self in. We either put ourselves in half way or sometimes we just do not even put our arm or our foot in, we are too afraid of what that might mean. Mostly afraid of what we may have to give up to do what God wants of us or what we feel we should be doing for His kingdom!

How is it that we can accept a Savior who gave His everything for our sins, THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE, but we ourselves make it so different to give up little things in our life that has tremendous impact on others.

An example: Many of you know that I am an Ohio State Football fanatic, probably a huge understatement. Nonetheless, a couple of years ago Axiom was putting together a Live Nativity to begin of all days the day of the Ohio State vs. Michigan game. To me missing that game is a HUUUUUUUUUUUGE sacrifice, but in comparison to what God has done for me, it is VERY petty! God put Himself into human form (Jesus) to come to earth be born into a life of persecution and ridicule to save people who rejected Him and to be honest hated Him and blatantly cursed His very existence.

Ok so my sacrifice for me was pathetic. A lot of people would look at it and say WOW Scott gave up the Buckeye game man how could he do that. I am telling you that pales in comparison to what sacrifices I am willing to make to do what God instructs me to do. I believe that God is telling me to put off getting a degree in Business Management to get an education to serve Him. I am willing to do it because even though I may not know what His plans are currently, I believe with all of my heart that whatever God has for me is far better than anything that I could ever imagine.

The Hokey Pokey talks about putting our arm in and the shaking some things up, then our leg and the shaking it up some more, then our head, our booty, and eventually our whole self! What a concept. Can you put your whole self into anything? How about anything that God is leading? God is doing magnificent things in His people on a daily basis and if you are not enjoying His blessing you are truly missing out.

A couple of years ago I started putting myself IN! The problem was that I only put a part of myself in! Maybe a tip toe it an ankle at best, then Satan started filling my head will all kinds of garbage and insecurities that I normally do not have! It cause serious problems with not only me, but the body I was involved in!

In 1 Corinthians 12 it says:

Unity and Diversity in the Body
12 Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For we were all baptized by[c] one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. 14 Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.

15 Now if the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. 16 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? 18 But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. 19 If they were all one part, where would the body be? 20 As it is, there are many parts, but one body.

21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” 22 On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, 23 and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, 24 while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it, 25 so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. 26 If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.

27 Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.

This verse is referring to the Church as a body. A body that has to be in ONE UNITY with each other. So if my friend and brother Dan Simpson is the foot and he is putting himself all in or if Jared Taylor is the hand and he is putting himself all in and if someone else was the head and they were putting themselves all in and if I were the elbow and I decide that I can only put myself in when it is convenient for me........how is it going to work unless the WHOLE BODY is in it together. Far too often there are people putting themselves on the sidelines because of fear, and because they let the Devil convince them they are not fit to serve or are not worthy in God's eyes to serve and that my friends is absolute hogwash!!!! God loves you exactly the way you are, faults and all and you know what He knows each and every one of them, but that is why He sent Jesus to Earth....to cover us with His never ending love and most importantly his abundant grace! See it all makes sense now, the Hokey Pokey is what it is all about! Eventually you will have to put your WHOLE self in!