Reading:
Matthew 26:1-19
"Why this waste?"
The plot to kill our Lord, continues to thicken. The chief priests and elders are continuing with the High Priest, Caiaphas, to plot to arrest Jesus and kill Him. Isn't this amazing, those religious leaders of the day, those that had the most knowledge about the work of the Messiah, were plotting to kill Him. The chief priests who offered the sacrifices everyday, which all of these pointed to the day that Jesus would die on the cross, plotted to kill him. It is almost too difficult to believe. Yet it is true.
Those that should have known Him did not. Even His own disciples who were with Him still did not get it. However, this woman at the house of Simon got it. She saw Jesus for who He is and anointed Him with the ointment. She does this out of love for Jesus. The disciples do not say, wow look how much she loved him. Instead they start complaining that she is wasteful. Really, she was wasteful anointing the body of Jesus Christ, the God-Man. How could anything that could be done to Him be wasteful? So close to the crucifixion and the disciples did not get it.
Are we that much different? Until the Holy Spirit opens our eyes to see Jesus for who He really is, we really don't know Him. And even after the Holy Spirit opens our eyes, we still struggle with sin in the life. That is why the Holy Spirit is constantly calling us back through repentance. To rely on God to change us and not that we can change ourselves. We must rely on God's grace. Nothing that we can ever do for the Lord will be put to waste, but as is promised in the Scripture, all things work together for good to those who know the Lord.
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