A Much Higher Calling

6 While Jesus was in Bethany in the home of Simon the Leper, 7 a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, which she poured on his head as he was reclining at the table.
8 When the disciples saw this, they were indignant. "Why this waste?" they asked. 9 "This perfume could have been sold at a high price and the money given to the poor."
10 Aware of this, Jesus said to them, "Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a beautiful thing to me. 11 The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have me. 12 When she poured this perfume on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial. 13 Truly I tell you, wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her."
Matthew 26:6-13(TNIV)



I love this story as it confirms the idea that man’s ways are not always God’s way and that sometimes the most disturbing and ridiculous and illogical things that occur throughout the day can never be understood by us because God’s vision and perspective is so much greater than our limited view of the world. The perfume that this lady poured on Jesus could have paid all the expenses for a family for a year and yet it served a much higher calling and more divine purpose as it was being sacrificed in order that our beautiful Savior could be properly anointed prior to giving His very life over to humiliation and suffering on our behalf. Who at that table could have known what was about to occur? Who could have known that the events that were about to transpire in the coming days would live on in the lives of millions of people more than 2000 years later? Who could have foretold that the anointing of perfume in that alabaster jar would be the beginning of an event that would transform literally millions upon millions of people’s hearts and lives back into authentic relationship with their Creator? You never know what your Heavenly Father may be up to or how the small acts of kindness that you perform today may be used for such a high calling as to transform a person’s life or maybe many people’s lives back to the joy and perfect unity that happen in a relationship with Jesus Christ. So today, continue to respond to the Spirit’s prompting on your heart as there is a purpose for every little thing that you do and you may never know how far your kindness will reach as you faithfully reflect God’s love in the smallest of ways to the world around you. Pour your alabaster jar of God’s love onto another person today as you learn to love Him more!