When you do the best you can from the purest motives and your Lord accepts your service, do not expect that others will approve all your actions. There was never a more beautiful proof of love to Christ than this anointing at Bethany, yet the disciples found fault with it.

What we really are, and what we really love, is always more visible than we realize. We were created by God to love in the deepest, purest way. We have the wiring for Divine love to flow like an electrifying current through us, giving light to thousands. But this love is often short-circuited and rerouted by a sad, devious affection … the love of self.

Humble Woman, Divine Love

Jesus was in his final hours before His crucifixion. A woman came up to Him and poured out her love on Jesus, anointing His head with expensive perfume, with no thought of herself.

Now when Jesus was in Bethany, at the home of Simon the leper, a woman came to Him with an alabaster vial of very costly perfume, and she poured it on His head as He reclined at the table. (Mt 26:6–7)

The disciples were indignant and said, “Why this waste? For this perfume might have been sold for a high price and the money given to the poor” (Vs. 8-9).

Their spiritual arteries were closed to the love of God. They had more logic than love, and they demeaned the woman and all she had done. Jesus rebuked them immediately. 

Whatever you do to honor and bless Jesus is never a waste. No cost is every wasted on Him who owns everything.

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