The woman with the alabaster box stands forth in bright and beauteous contrast with all around. While the chief priests, elders and scribes were plotting against Christ in the palace of the high priest, she was anointing His body in the house of Simon the leper. While Judas was planning to go to the chief priest to sell Jesus for thirty pieces of silver, she was pouring the precious contents of her alabaster box upon His Person. Touching contrast! She was wholly absorbed with her object, and her object was Christ. Those who knew not His worth and beauty might pronounce her sacrifice a waste. Those who could sell Him for thirty pieces of silver might talk of giving to the poor, but she heeded them not. Their surmisings and murmurings were nothing to her. She had found her all in Christ. They might murmur, but she could worship and adore. May we, like her, always find our place at the feet of Jesus, loving, adoring, admiring and worshipping His blessed Person. May we also be willing to spend and be spent in His service.
Young Christian