A woman came quietly into the room with a jar of precious/ expensive oil. The kind a woman kept for her wedding day. She came to where JESUS and his disciples were reclined eating and broke the bottle and anointed JESUS’ head with the oil. Then she anointed JESUS’ feet and wiped them with her hair.
Some of the disciples, Judas Iscariot in particular, began to scold her rebuking her harshly for the “waste” saying that the oil could have been sold for much and given to the poor.
But JESUS told them to stop harassing her for she had done a beautiful and necessary thing for HIM. She had anointed HIS body for HIS funeral.
Did she understand what she was doing? Is she the only one who took HIS words of HIS pending death seriously? Or did she simply obey the nudging of the Holy SPIRIT not understanding why she felt the need to do it? We are not told and I don’t think it matters for GOD can lead us whether we understand or not. What matters is she took what she had and did what she knew she should do.
She was right but severely criticized. Have you ever done right and then been criticized?
JESUS words for her cry out to me, “She did what she could.” Mark 14:8 Literally in the Greek it reads, “She had, she did”
HIS words are a challenge to me. “Do I do what I can? Do I willing use what I have for HIM?”
Some of the disciples, Judas Iscariot in particular, began to scold her rebuking her harshly for the “waste” saying that the oil could have been sold for much and given to the poor.
But JESUS told them to stop harassing her for she had done a beautiful and necessary thing for HIM. She had anointed HIS body for HIS funeral.
Did she understand what she was doing? Is she the only one who took HIS words of HIS pending death seriously? Or did she simply obey the nudging of the Holy SPIRIT not understanding why she felt the need to do it? We are not told and I don’t think it matters for GOD can lead us whether we understand or not. What matters is she took what she had and did what she knew she should do.
She was right but severely criticized. Have you ever done right and then been criticized?
JESUS words for her cry out to me, “She did what she could.” Mark 14:8 Literally in the Greek it reads, “She had, she did”
HIS words are a challenge to me. “Do I do what I can? Do I willing use what I have for HIM?”
Yep, doing the right thing is the hard thing sometimes :)
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Amy