I guess a good way to start todays commentary is by the way I ended it. May we whom much is given and forgiven, give our love, devotion, gratitude, humility, and honor. I pray that these words do not focus on what we are to do but glory in what He has done. May He touch our hearts and we too be found willing at the feet of the Lord.
Extra Credit: Today the extra reading is from Pastor Donald Fortner. He discuss in this short devotion The Time of Love
Jhn 12:3 Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment.
- Why is it mentioned that the house was filled with odor?
Several things stand out here about Mary.
Her love: She may have feared that they would take the Lord before they could prepare His body for the grave. In an action of love to Him who first loved her she toke her cruse of precious ointment and prepared her Lord for the journey.
Her devotion: She thought nothing of herself or those around her, but instead was fixated on the one who had made her heart captive. And once again we find her at His feet in submission to His words.
Her gratitude: We have here oil, worth a years wages that was much to costly for her own use but not to costly for the use of the one she owed all to.
Her humility: Her silent actions of wiping the oil with her hair showed her respect and submission to the one who deserved it. Taking her own glory and transferring it completely to her master.
May we whom much is given and forgiven, give our love, devotion, gratitude, humility, and honor.
