1 Chronicles 29:21 · World English Bible
They sacrificed sacrifices to Yahweh, and offered burnt offerings to Yahweh, on the next day after that day, even one thousand bulls, one thousand rams, and one thousand lambs, with their drink offerings and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel,
A thousand bullocks burned to nothing is a staggering thing to give away, and that extravagance is exactly the point. Give up what you value most.
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A thousand bullocks burned to nothing is a staggering thing to give away, and that extravagance is exactly the point. Give up what you value most. Place it on the altar and let it go, because holding everything back is how a person turns rigid and dies inside. The wealth given up here marks a whole people orienting themselves toward something above their appetite.
Sacrifice is the oldest discovery of our kind: give up something now, and the future opens. A father who works a job he dislikes so his children can eat is doing precisely this. To surrender part of what one has, in trust, is how a person buys tomorrow.
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What am I holding so tightly that it has started to make me rigid?
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