A friend of mine is reading the book Extravagant Worship by Darlene Zschech and she pointed one of the passages out to me. The word extravagant is defined as "spending much more than is necessary or wise; wasteful"...or something to that effect. It's amazing when you think about that definition and connect it with worship. Martha's sister, Mary, was accused of being wasteful, or extravagant, in her pouring her expensive perfume on Jesus' feet. How right was she. The true worth that she placed on/in her worship of Christ is so powerful. She didn't have abundance to give out of, but she gave something more beautiful than the religious leaders around her were willing to. It makes me think of another story in the Bible, the woman who gave the two coins to the tithe. Some said that her gift was pointless, yet Jesus pointed out that she gave all she had! She gave with her heart and that was what God saw. We are to worship extravagantly, spending much more than is necessary, being wasteful in our worship.
I liked this quote as well...from one of her other books:
"Worship is an act of obedience of the heart. It is a response that requires the very core of who you are to love the Lord for who He is, not just for what He does." (Darlene Zschech)
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