Bayith
~ Sweeter Than
Honey
As He sat
at meat there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard
very precious (Mark 14:3)
That woman could have gotten a vase that would not have cost so much as those made of alabaster. She might have brought perfume that would have cost only fifty pence; this cost three hundred. As far as I can understand, her whole fortune was in it. She might have been more economical; but no – she gets the very best box, and pours it all out on the head of her Redeemer.
My brothers and sisters in Christ,
the trouble is that we bring to Jesus too cheap a box. If we have one of alabaster and one of
earthenware, we keep the first for ourselves, and we give the latter to Christ.
We owe Jesus the best of our time,
the best of our talents, the best of everything. Is there an hour in the day when we are wider awake than any
other, more capable of thought and feeling, let us bring that to Christ. We are apt to take a few moments in the
morning when we are getting awake, or a few moments at night when we are
getting asleep, to Jesus. If there be
an hour in the day when we are most appreciative of God’s goodness, and Christ’s
pardon, and heaven’s joy, oh, that is the alabaster box to bring to Jesus.
We owe Christ the very best years
of our life. When the sight is the
clearest, when the hearing is the acutest, when the arm is the strongest, when
the nerves are the steadiest, when the imagination is the brightest. Let us come to Jesus, and not wait until our
joints are stiffened with rheumatism, and the glow is gone out of our
temperament, and we arise in the morning as weary as when we laid down at
night.
From the book “Sword Scrapbook”