A jar of perfume
poured out over Jesus
and a question is born;
What is the point of such extravagant?
Why this waste?
I don’t know,
I honestly don’t know.
But if this shocks you so
get ready
for you’ll see more
more than costly perfume poured out.
You’ll see lives poured out
given freely
used up
spilled out
wasted
for no reason at all.
Extravagance unlimited!
Lives poured out
handed over
lost
thrown away
for Jesus!
What is the point of such extravagance?
Why such waste?
Beautiful questions
with no answers.
And how sad if no one
has ever asked us;
Why such extravagance?
Macrina Wiederkehr
1 comments:
We discussed this very question last year in a bible study of stay-at-home-moms. I too, struggled with seeing this as a wasted use of the perfume. Someone commented that the sacrifice is what Jesus valued. For the woman in the story, it was a sacrifice of money. She continued talking, for stay-at-home-moms, the sacrifice is time. Our precious little "me time". Perhaps giving up that time for moments with our Lord, or with our husbands, or so our husbands can have some alone time. I thought it was an interesting comment.
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