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The sacrifice of your desires are directly tied to the level of worship you are able to obtain.
-Ps. Brian Delcour

Mark 14

Hosha = Save us and Nah = Please, or now please

Our wounds don’t scare Jesus!

What is the proper response to one who has done so much?

“Early in the first century Pliny the Elder remarked that ‘the best ointment is preserved in alabaster.’ The value of the perfume, and its identification as nard, suggests that it was a family heirloom that was passed on from one generation to another, from mother to daughter.”
-Lane

“I shall always feel obliged to Judas for figuring up the price of that box of costly nard. He did it to blame her, but we will let his figures stand, and think the more of her the more he put down to the account of waste. I should never have known what it cost, nor would you either, if Judas had not marked down in his pocket-book.”
-Charles Spurgeon

She seems focused on Jesus alone, not even on her own forgiven sin. It is a great thing to love Jesus for all He has done for us; it can be greater still to love Him simply for who He is in all His wonder and majesty.
-David Guzik

“It is interesting that the word translated ‘waste’ in Mark 14:4 is translated ‘perdition’ in John 17:12 and applied to Judas! Judas criticized Mary for ‘wasting money,’ but he wasted his entire life!”
-Warren Wiersbe

In the end there are only two gifts you can give Jesus, one is your worship, the other is your heart. You can’t truly give him one without giving him the other.