"Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat. But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste? For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor. When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me. For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always. For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial. Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her."
Today's quote contains the story of the woman with an alabaster box from which she took a very expensive ointment and anointed Jesus' head as a token of her devotion.
The important thing to remember about this lesson is what Jesus said to his apostles after they had complained about the supposed waste of the expensive ointment. Jesus said; "Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her."
How many places have you ever been where the gospel was supposedly preached WITHOUT hearing the story about the pure devotion of the woman who brought the alabaster box and annointed Jesus' head?
It has always amazed me that so-called Christian preachers, will insist that the vaguest of biblical instructions be obeyed to the max while very obvious instructions, straight out of the mouth of Jesus, can be almost totally ignored.
It behooves every child of God, who takes on the responsibility of preaching the gospel, to remember what Jesus told His apostles to do and continually tell the story of that woman and her devotion to Jesus Christ. ~
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