“She Has Done What She Could”

December 12, 2017

“She Has Done What She Could”

Blessings folk!

Read the account again.

Mar 14:3-9
While He was in Bethany at the home of Simon the leper, and reclining at the table, there came a woman with an alabaster vial of very costly perfume of pure nard; and she broke the vial and poured it over His head.

But some were indignantly remarking to one another, “Why has this perfume been wasted?

“For this perfume might have been sold for over three hundred denarii,
and the money given to the poor.” And they were scolding her.

But Jesus said, “Let her alone; why do you bother her? She has done a good deed to Me.

“For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you wish you can do good to them;
but you do not always have Me.

“She has done what she could; she has anointed My body beforehand for the burial.

“Truly I say to you, wherever the gospel is preached in the whole world,
what this woman has done will also be spoken of in memory of her.”

A woman enters.
Unexpectedly.
Boldly.
Aggressively.

She broke a vial of expensive perfume of pure nard.
An odorous moment.
A loud moment.
Not subtle at all.

She then proceeded to pour the nard over Jesus head.

What was the response of those gathered?

Some were indignant.
What a waste of perfume.
What a waste of resources they thought.
It could have been sold to “help the poor”.
They scolded the woman.
The greedy and self-centered are always “concerned for the poor and children.”
(We have an entire political party based upon such.)

Jesus’ response?
Leave her alone.
Do not bother her.
He knew what was happening.
She was anointing Him for burial.

The Religionists were seeking to kill Jesus.
He was now being anointed for burial.

The woman did the correct thing.
She gave abundantly, extravagantly.
She did what she could with what she had.
Her act is memorized in the Word.

May we do likewise.


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