My Life I Give ,My Love I Give,My All {Kirk Franklin}
For people who care to smell sweet,leap out,stay attractive and sensational, it is a sure thing they take time to buy good and pricey perfumes bearing scents are that captivating and spellbinding.
One thing you will note about most perfumes or cologne is the size of the bottles they come in and the bottle lips ,usually very narrow with a very tiny opening.I bet this is because the scent is not dependent on how much of the perfume you spray out but the fragrance it leaves behind and how time serving it is.
The story of the alabaster box in Luke 7:36 is one of the many and popularly known stories of the Holy Bible even by non-believers.But allow me to pick out what stood out for me in the entire account in regard to value and personalism of worship.
In the Jewish culture,an alabaster box was given to a woman by her father and she would save it for the one she will be betrothed to and break it as a symbol of acceptance to his proposal for marriage .The box had to be fragmented into pieces to show she withheld nothing from the man who will marry her.
When this woman 'Mary' came to anoint Jesus it was in the most impetuous setting,but this woman had a revelation different from the crowd around who chided her for wasting expensive ointment. We have many times heard different descriptions of 'worship ' but all lead to one thing personal relationship with God. What to you is this thing you cannot hold from the lover of your soul? Money? Time? Comfort? Out of all creation, man is the most precious to God that means we are that alabaster box that needs to be fully broken and fragmented, pouring out our worship to Jesus. But how broken are we, how expensive is the sweet fragrance of our worship? Can we save it for Him and only Him. Like Mary, let us worship him withholding nothing. He is the Lover of Our souls, our best friend and the only Holy God. Worship does not have to be in a planned and strategic place, whatever time, place, setting just do it.
In the Jewish culture,an alabaster box was given to a woman by her father and she would save it for the one she will be betrothed to and break it as a symbol of acceptance to his proposal for marriage .The box had to be fragmented into pieces to show she withheld nothing from the man who will marry her.
When this woman 'Mary' came to anoint Jesus it was in the most impetuous setting,but this woman had a revelation different from the crowd around who chided her for wasting expensive ointment. We have many times heard different descriptions of 'worship ' but all lead to one thing personal relationship with God. What to you is this thing you cannot hold from the lover of your soul? Money? Time? Comfort? Out of all creation, man is the most precious to God that means we are that alabaster box that needs to be fully broken and fragmented, pouring out our worship to Jesus. But how broken are we, how expensive is the sweet fragrance of our worship? Can we save it for Him and only Him. Like Mary, let us worship him withholding nothing. He is the Lover of Our souls, our best friend and the only Holy God. Worship does not have to be in a planned and strategic place, whatever time, place, setting just do it.
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