Title: Love is a waste
Content e="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 21px; FONT-FAMILY: 'Gullimche'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 13px"> The main text is the story of the three siblings Lazarus, Martha, and Mary. This is a story about a feast in This feast was to repay the grace of Jesus for the resurrection of Lazarus from the dead.
At this feast, Mary broke the alabaster jar of perfume before the Lord, wiped the Lord's feet and wiped it with her hair. Three hundred denarii of expensive perfume was poured on Jesus' feet. This is what Jesus said in Mark 14:8, “He anointed my body with ointment with all his might, and made preparations for my burial.”
When Judas Iscariot saw this, he rebuked, saying, “Why did you not sell perfumed oil and give it to the poor?” (4-5). The rebuke of Judas Iscariot seems right. However, there are several problems with the rebuke of Judas Iscariot. The first is to evaluate Mary's sublime love materially. It is a problem to think of faith or love as a matter of profit or loss. The second is disrespectful motives.(:6) It was not really about the poor. The third is the contradiction of words and actions. If he had truly cared for the poor, he would have given away his personal wealth first. But nowhere in the Bible can we find such a record.
Today, I criticize others too easily without doing it.
So we can come to this conclusion. ‘Love is a waste.’
Jesus said: “I will squander my possessions for the sake of your souls with great joy, and I will also waste myself” (1 Corinthians 12:15). With love comes waste and loss. But waste and loss for love bring happiness. So love cannot be measured by logic and profit or loss.
The text teaches a paradoxical lesson to the basic Christian truth that a person filled with the Holy Spirit lives a temperate life and waste is a sin. When Mary poured expensive perfume, equivalent to a year's salary, on Jesus' feet, the disciples and Judas Iscariot accused it of being useless.
However, in the Bible, Jesus is not on the side of the disciples, but on the side of the wasting Mary (Mark 14:6). That is why he said, “Where the gospel is preached, what this woman has done will also be told in memory of her” (Mark 14:9).
At the beginner level of faith, we are happy to receive, but as we become a mature Christian, the more we spend for Him by loving Jesus, the happier we become.
If you look at the 2,000-year history of Christianity, it was revived and continued to this day because of the many people who loved and devoted themselves by breaking their alabaster like Mary.
Unpoured balm has no fragrance. The more we waste, the happier we are. This is the Lord's love for us and the love we should give to the Lord.
Today, God has a will to accomplish through our church and family, but he says that it lacks prayer and inspiration. Therefore, I hope that you will fill the amount of prayer for lost souls and become saints who impress God. I bless you in the name of the Lord to be me and you who are happy to waste for the Lord like Mary.