OUR FATHER WHO HONORS THOSE WHO HONOR HIS SON

Matthew chapter 26 verses 6 - 13 captures a moment when a woman, inspired by the Holy Spirit, approached the Lord Jesus and poured an expensive frangant oil on His head as he sat at the table.

Jesusˋ disciples were annoyed that so much money was wasted instead of being put towards a good cause like helping the poor. 

6 And when Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, 7 a woman came to Him having an alabaster flask of very costly fragrant oil, and she poured it on His head as He sat at the table. 8 But when His disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste? 9 For this fragrant oil might have been sold for much and given to the poor.”
10 But when Jesus was aware of it, He said to them, “Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a good work for Me. 11 For you have the poor with you always, but Me you do not have always. 12 For in pouring this fragrant oil on My body, she did it for My burial. 13 Assuredly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told as a memorial to her.”

Jesusˋ response to the complaints of the disciples revealed a glimpse behind-the-scenes of the preparations being made for Jesusˋ crucifixion and burial.

As the time approached for Jesus to give Himself into the hands of the authorities, the preparation for His burial were underway and the pouring of the fragrant oil represented the physical version of what was happening in the spiritual realm.

The womanˋs sacrifice and obedience to the prompting of the Spirit immortalized her participation in the story of the salvation of mankind and as Jesus foretold, her actions are  still being read and studied two thousand years later.

John chapter 12 verse 26 says this:

If any man serve Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there shall also My servant be. If any man serve Me, him will My Father honor.

Amen.

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