Hey Rooties (clearly I am still working on a greeting name lol),
I know it has been a VERY long time since I posted last. It has been an eventful past month, and been trying to re schedule my life around these new events. Any who, that is neither here nor there.
I wanted to talk to you about worship, so I was in my car listening to a live worship session by WorshipMob (they are an AMAZING group of people), they sang this song by Bethel called, “Jesus We Love you.” The song itself is very touching but there was one a small part in the song that caught my attention, it goes:
“Our affection
Our devotion
Poured out on the
Feet of Jesus”
That part just touched me deep in my soul (I’ve learned that when something catches my attention to write it down and ask the holy spirit to revel it to me whats up because there is something deeper there). As I was trying to figure it out, I realized that it reminded me of the story of the lady with the alabaster box.
In Luke 7: 36-38 it states “A woman in a town who lived a sinful life learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee’s house, so she came there with an alabaster jar of perfume.38 As she stood behind him at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. Then she wiped them with her hair, kissed them and poured perfume on them.” In those times, perfume was very expensive; the cost of the alabaster box was 300 danerii which was approximately $ 54, 509 US in 2013 (can you imagine its worth today). That was her most expensive and valuable possession, especially since she was a prostitute. Not to be so vulgar, (I want to try and paint a picture in your mind) but she had to work VERY hard and accept judgement from both men (whom she slept with) and women for her choice of profession, she also had to do this for a very long time. However, she saw that the alabaster box was not as valuable as the forgiveness and love of Jesus .
How does this scripture tie into the song? The alabaster box represents the lady’s affection and devotion for and to Jesus, before she poured the perfume on His feet, she cried, she then wiped His feet with her hair, and finally she poured the perfume on His feet.
Her tears represents her realization that she has sinned
Her wiping His feet with her hair (the hair is the crown of a woman, she was willing to dirty it and use it on Jesus’s feet as a towel) represents the asking of forgiveness
Her pouring of perfume (the most valuable item she possessed) represents:
her sacrifice
her dying to self
her sins which she chose to leave at the alter (His feet).
By doing so, she showed Jesus where HER devotion and HER affection to Him; in that moment she told Jesus you are more valuable than what I have ever worked for; in that moment she said you are worth more than 300 danerii ($ 54, 509 USD).
(Are your ready to grow some roots, because you are about to)
So my question to you is:
Where is your alabaster box ?
Have you cried at his feet and whipped it with your hair?
Have you poured your affection and devotion at and on the feet of Jesus?
In Eden 