Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—John 12:1-8
by: Dale Rood.
Could Mary Magdalene have sold that expensive perfume and then given the money to the poor? Yes, she could have. But sometimes our service needs to take a different form. Sometimes, like Mary Magdalene, in gratitude and passionate love, we need to pour out our hearts in an expression of love to Jesus. I think of buying and giving flowers to my wife. It is not a terribly practical thing because the flowers soon fade. But the delight she has in them makes it all worthwhile. Yes, there will always be the poor to whom we can give. But there come those moments that we will have to anoint our Lord with “costly sacrifice” and so to speak “wipe His feet with our hair.”