It’s funny, most of you will not even read this post till much later because I have started blogging here at this new site before it has even been linked to the button that you just pushed.  Some of you may be reading this a week from now, or who knows how long.  But I have some thoughts rolling around in this big old cranium of mine(the likes of which I have unfortunately passed on to my son).  So, anyway, here’s the deal, I was reading in 2 Chronicles yesterday.  I kind of threw a dart at the Bible and said, I’m gonna read this.  Have you ever spun a globe and closed your eyes and pressed your finger on it and where ever your finger landed on was where you were going to live?  71 percent of the time you end up with your finger someplace in the watery deep.  However from time to time you land on some solid piece of land, and that is where you are going to live.  Well the same sort of principal applied to my Bible reading yesterday (I’m sorry to say).  I wish that I was a little more focused and purposeful, however, I cracked it open and here’s where I landed; 2 Chronicles. 

I read the first several chapters because it captivated my attention.  I was drawn into what was going on here at this point in time of history.  It was amazing!  Here we find King Solomon {who was the son of King David, the great shepherd King} ruling over all of Israel.  He heads off to go and worship God.  He brings his entourage with him, and they head to a place called Gibeon where they are going to worship God.  So check this out, Solomon gets there and he starts a huge worshp service.  He goes and the Bible says that he sacrifices 1000 burnt offerings.  When I read that verse I was thinking, wow, that is really extravagant, and incredible.  This guy(solomon) up and sacrificed 1000 burnt offerings to the Lord.  I was also thinking, I wonder how much all of that would cost!  So, I tried to do some research to see how much on the average sale price of a cow. Let me tell you, that is no easy task.  However, I did find an auction site that provided me with the exact data that I needed.  This site documents that they on average sell their cows for $576.  They sell their bulls for $1750 on average.  Now, when people would make burnt offerings and sacrifices to the Lord in this time period they would never sacrifice whatever was cheap, or mutated, or old and usless anyhow.  The rule was that the sacrifice had to be pure and unblemished.  So, it is safe to assume that the 1000 animals that were sacrificed were probably worth more than the industry average.  If we take these average numbers and we were to say that the offering is split 50/50, that is, half cows, half bulls, we are talking about a worship service with an offering worth 1 million 163 thousand dollars.  (In todays values) 

IMAGINE THAT!  Can you imagine coming to a worship service ready to give God over a million dollars?  I know that there are some super wealthy people out there who have the ability to do such things, but come on!  I mean seriously that is some extravagant worhsip.  This begs the question, “How extravagant is your worship?”  I mean I know Solomon was a king, yet at the same time, I’m sure this was even extravagant for him.  The idea is that God is worth our worship!  He is worth all that we have and all that we are! 

How good of a job are you doing right now in worshiping God?  It is my desire to worship God with extravagance, with generosity and with joy in my heart like Solomon did here.  How incredible would our worship services be if more and more of us worshipped God with all that we had and all that we are!  Incredible!!!  Think on it.