Jesus didn’t flinch. (Mark 14: 6-9)
As critics rose up in the room, those religious, respected, and self-righteous ones, He cut through their noise with a command: “Leave her alone.”
No justification. No delay. No compromise. Just bold defense of a woman who dared to worship freely and give everything she had. Why? Because she understood something they didn’t, something we all miss from time to time:
This was a sacred moment and sacred moments demand full presence.
This woman, uninvited and misunderstood, poured out a perfume worth a year’s wages on Jesus. The world around her didn’t understand but it was real. It was costly. And it was love.
Meanwhile, the critics, there’s always critics, were quick to mask their discomfort with a veil of “concern for the poor.” But Jesus saw through it, He always sees through it, and called it what it was: distraction and spiritual arrogance. He wasn’t minimizing the poor. He was exposing the excuses we make to avoid giving God our best.
And He does the same with us.
But He’s not asking us, usually, to give a year’s wages. Instead, His ask is pretty simple:
“She has done what she could.”
That’s it. That’s the call. That’s what gets remembered for eternity. Not what looked impressive. Not what earned applause. But what was offered in obedience and love.
“…what she could.”
When we give from that place — time, energy, finances, emotional depth, even when it stretches us, even when it costs us something, God meets the gap. He always has. He will again. And if the world doesn’t see it, because we’d love for them too, then we must remember that God SEES, HEARS and KNOWS us each and every time.
Real worship will always offend the world.
It will look reckless.
It will look foolish.
It will be misunderstood.
But that’s exactly what makes it sacred. That’s what makes it worth everything.
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