Because of the goodness of God the heart breaks forth into psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. Worship, praise, adoration, dancing, laughing, flow from the inner chambers. In Psalm 150 we see the celebration of the people of God with trumpet and lute and harp, with timbrel and dance, with strings and pipe and loud clashing cymbals. They make noise, lots of noise. There is not a thing wrong with noise at the appropriate time, just as there is nothing wrong with silence when it is appropriate.
Children dance when they celebrate.
The folk dance has always been a carrier of cultural values and has been used repeatedly in genuine celebration. Of course dancing can have wrong and evil manifestations, but that is another matter entirely. Dancing and noise making are not required forms of celebration. They are examples only, to impress upon us that the earth indeed is the Lord s and the fullness thereof. We can do some specific things to cultivate the art of celebration.