Filling The Room With The Aroma Of Praise
She did what she could. She poured perfume on my body beforehand to prepare for my burial.
Mark 14:8
Whether in words or by actions, true love cannot be contained. It always finds a means of expression.
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But you don’t always have to talk about love, as Mark 14 illustrates. There a nameless woman expressed her love for the Lord, apparently without uttering a single word.
Scottish minister Robert Murray McCheyne speaks of the woman’s act of loving adoration in anointing her precious Savior with a very costly and precious perfume.
WALK WITH ROBERT MURRAY MCCHEYNE
“If we have been saved by Christ, we should pour out our best affections on him.
“It is good to love his disciples, good to love his ministers, good to love his poor. But it is best to love him.
“We cannot now reach his blessed head, nor anoint his holy feet. But we can fall down at his footstool and pour out our affections toward him.
“It was not the ointment Jesus desired, for what does the King of Glory care for a little ointment?
“But it is the loving heart poured out upon his feet; it is the adoration, praise, love, and prayers of a believer’s broken heart that Christ cares for.
“The new heart is the alabaster box that Jesus loves—broken and filling the room with the aroma of praise.”
WALK CLOSER TO GOD
It’s easy to become preoccupied with the work of the Lord and overlook the Lord of the work, to concentrate on the people of God or the business of God and ignore the person of God.
Activity is vital in the life of a servant. But so too is bringing your alabaster box to Jesus, breaking it, pouring out your heart and allowing the sweet fragrance of praise to say as nothing else can, “I love you, Lord.”
You need not be eloquent to do that, for God hears the sincere sentiments of his children’s hearts.
