DOING A BEAUTIFUL THING FOR JESUS

an unidentified woman comes and pours perfume all over his head (Mark 14:3)

“The [growing, advancing] Christian lets God strip him of everything that might serve as a false refuge -- a secondary trust.”

-- A.W. Tozer.

Realize: Radical Love, Is Costly Love

Why the “…woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume…” – Mark tells us (Mark 14:3)

Expect To Be Criticized and Misunderstood

Why they said “…indignantly to one another. Why this waste of perfume. It could have been sold…and…given to the poor. And they rebuked her harshly.” (Mark 14:4-5)

“Leave her alone” – Jesus snaps at the woman’s critics. “Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing to me…”

(Mark 14:6)

“…Some say, [my] letters are weighty and forceful, but in person [I am] unimpressive and my speaking amounts to nothing…”

(2 Corinthians 10:10).

But is Paul fazed by such harshness? Not really. Why in Galatians 1:10 he declares – “I am not trying to please people. I want to please God. Do you think I am trying to please people? If I were doing that, I would not be a servant of Christ.”

(Galatians 1:10, Contemporary English Version)

Take Comfort: Only What’s Done For Jesus Will Last.

Why this woman “…has done all she could by pouring perfume on my body…” Jesus notes in Mark 14:9. And because of such sacrifice, such devotion “…You may be sure that…people will remember what she has done. And they will tell others.”

(Mark 14:9, Contemporary English Version)

Break open your life, for His Kingdom’s Cause – and let the aroma of Jesus – the fragrance of Jesus – the beauty of Jesus – pour over -- and saturate your life!