perfume on His Head and wiped His Feet with her hair.In today's words, she gave everything she had to Jesus. That perfume was so costly
and probably inherited that if she would have kept it and sold it she would have money for life. Money for her dreams, safety, marriage, and anything else she needed it for. Instead of keeping it all, she poured it on Jesus and gave her life to Him. Everything that she had was His. She even gave Him her physical beauty by wiping His feet with her hair. Women back in those days didn't let her hair down in public. She let in down in the privacy of her own home like when she was getting ready to be intimate with her husband. She didn't care how she looked. All she cared about was loving Christ with all she had.We can kneel at Christ's feet in today's world. You might ask, "well, how?" Here are some examples: you could give your time up for Him, you could help those in need, you could give your belongings up and follow Him, and other things like that. I'm in the middle of a real life situation now so it might be an example to some of you out there or help to understand it better anyways. I love the job I have now but I feel like in the future God is calling me back to grad college and
to another career that I never thought I would be interested in. To go back to grad college, I might have to give up living in AR for a few years, which means giving up the friends that I made here, giving up old friends that I have around here, giving up a job that I love, giving up a church that has helped me grow so much in the past years, putting my dream of getting married and having a family on hold for a few years and other things.In a way, I know it is all going to be worth it when I graduate grad college and
get the job that I want afterwards. Even if I finally get to relax some during grad college that would be a blessing then what I'm doing now. I seem to be on the go all the time trying to keep up with events going on and my friends. I will admit I feel like I don't have any real close friends anymore here in AR because I've been so busy with my job which is good but some days I need those close friendships but yet I don't have them because I don't have time to let them grow. Before I know it, a friend is going to be moving or I just don't talk to them anymore. Not on purpose but we just fade away.I'm just learning about how much I need to trust and love God right now and just depend on Him for everything. If I do take that step it will be a leap of faith for me, for sure. Another reason I'm not taking it yet is because the classes are
hard so that is scary too. It will be a time of getting closer to God. It is strange how it takes some of use to start a show or business and then some of us it takes just getting the courage to go to grad school to get closer to God. God has His different paths for everyone. It is a way I could be free in Him and see what He can do for the rest of my life because right now I cannot even think of what He is going to do with it or how I will do with it. Will I let the children down? Will the children become capable because of what I'm teaching them?My challenge from this weekend and I challenge all of you who read this with me is to: kneel at Christ's feet when you don't think you can make it through. Actually, kneel by your bedside and think of Jesus while you are doing it. Maybe even pray and talk to God on your knees about the things you are having a hard time with or can't decided in between. Give God the control of your life and see what He can do. When He does something wonderful even if it is a little thing, then give Him worship for that thing. He loves it when His Children worships Him throughout the day. It is a way of talking to Him.
He has turned your scarlet sins to pure white like the snow is. Don't you think He can do so much more for you?
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