While He was in Bethany, reclining at the table in the home of Simon
the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive
perfume, made of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the
perfume on His head. (Mark 14: 3)
Expensive perfume! What woman would give up a whole jar of
expensive perfume and pour it on the head of a man? It was probably
worth a years wages. It was probably all she had that was worth
anything. What WAS she thinking?
Maybe she just wasn’t thinking. Maybe she was just loving Him so
intensely that she just poured out every drop of that precious
perfume on His head. Did she know something that no one else
knew? Had she seen something with the eye of her heart and the
passion of her mind? Did she know, at the depth of her being, who
this man really was? Was she willing to pour out everything she had
for Him, just as he would pour out his very life for all of us? Oh, that
I had that passion – that insight - that wisdom, to know without
doubt, that this was (is) God incarnate!
Give thanks! Give everything!
Pat Wilson
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