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Just Be 30-Day Challenge

September 7, 2020 Michelle Gott

Just Be Extravagant – Day Seven

Webster says ‘Extravagant’ means excessively high; exceeding the bounds of reason, as actions, demands, opinions or passions; going beyond what is deserved or justifiable

Synonyms: fancy, exorbitant, lavish, excessive, ludicrous, reckless

GOD says in Ephesians 5:1, ‘Watch what God does, and then you do it, like children who learn from proper behavior from their parents. Mostly what God does is love you. Keep company with Him and learn a life of love. Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious, but extravagant. He didn’t love in order to get something from us but to give everything of Himself to us. Love like that (MSG).’

There is a story in the Bible about a woman who lavished Jesus with a perfume that scoffers accused was an exorbitant waste because the precious liquid was compared to a year’s wages. Additionally, she washed His feet with her tears and dried the tear-stained feet with her hair. I have thought her second act of servanthood and humble adoration of her Lord was far more extravagant as she poured out her heart on the feet of her Master. I want to love like that.

I want to love extravagantly. I want to have extravagant sacrifice on behalf of those who Jesus came to save. I want my heart to be broken for what broke the Father’s when He looked upon humanity; when He saw the desperate need for Him to cause His only and precious Son to leave His throne in Paradise, to come to the dregs of this world, to live like us, but sinlessly, and then to take all my failures, past, present and future, to be buried in the nailprints on his hands and feet, never to stand between me and my Heavenly Father again. I want to love like that.

The Father’s extravagant grace for me should become my highest calling toward another. Mercy should be inscribed in my measure of forgiveness and in a purpose for patience with others. I should be moved by the same compassion that drew the Son to this world to be obedient to the desire of His Father, which was to rescue and redeem His children. That grace was poured over my sin-stains much like the woman’s priceless alabaster jar of pure nard was poured on the head of Jesus, but the difference this time, was the extravagant cost of God’s grace which was much more costly and priceless than just a year’s wages. It cost Him and His son everything to save me. I want to love like that.