Dear God,
I have been contemplating the surrendered life of Jesus whilst on earth, to You, His Father. Throughout the gospel account, Your profound divine love toward Him, is evident. Jesus demonstrated His love daily, as he sought You early each day in long and earnest prayer, in the presence of the Holy Spirit. It was real heart love mutually felt and received, that enabled the loving life and sacrifice of Jesus, in dire and dark circumstances.
It is the love of Jesus, that calls me today, and when it finds a responsive chord in the heart, the love I have for my Saviour grows and closer and closer to Him I come. It is then I see that true surrender to the will of Jesus is possible, and the reward is to be free from my personally destructive thoughts and ways. Ephesian 5:2 “Walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.”
From the Biblical account it is believed that Mary the sister of Lazarus, had been caught in sinful practices and Jesus lovingly healed her and she was devoted in her love for Jesus in return. Mark 14: 3 “And being in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, as He sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster flask of very costly oil of spikenard. Then she broke the flask and poured it on His head.” John 12:3 indicates this was Mary, the sister of Lazarus. To me this shows the deep love and surrendered love Mary had for the One, who had literally saved her and in return her love for Him was over flowing.
Some of the disciples of Jesus were so taken up with the view that it was a waste of costly oil being poured out upon Jesus, when it could have been sold and realised good money for the poor. Jesus rebuked them, for He knew her heart, and the loving sacrifice warmed His heart. Mark 14:8”She has done what she could. She has come beforehand to anoint My body for burial.” Her gift must have been prompted by the Holy Spirit, and was fit for the King of Heaven!
I do not want to miss the point of any of the Bible teachings that You God have for me, today. I also wish to humbly sit at the feet of Jesus in surrender, and give the gift of my whole heart, at the prompting of the Holy Spirit.
Amen