John 12: 3 (Contemporary English Version)

“Mary took a very expensive bottle of perfume and poured it on Jesus’ feet. She wiped them with her hair, and the sweet smell of the perfume filled the house.”

 

I’ve always loved reading this passage and refer it to how worship is suppose to be.  I was thinking how valuable our lives are and how we sometimes don’t like to “waste” it on unimportant things.  Yet as we live our lives out, we end up wasting our lives on small insignificant things that won’t even matter in the end.  How many countless hours are wasted on Facebook or in front of the T.V.?  Really, do we really have to watch every single new show that comes out?  What do you get out of it?  How much of your life goes into God or how much of our lives go into helping others?

We can be like that very expensive bottle of perfume being stored away and never really allowing others to smell the aroma of God in us, only on special occasions.  Some die with the entire perfume still in them.  What a waste.  You think God gave you this life so that you can watch uncountable hours of T.V. or to go through this life without ever sharing anything about Him?  How are people going to know how good God is if we never tell others of His goodness?  We need to pour our lives out to God and into others.

Don’t waste what God has given you.  At the end of your life, what aroma will you leave behind to others?  Will they even know that you were a Christian?  How much of God did you pour out into others?  Yea, I know we can be so distracted by all the shows, games, gossip, and other insignificant things to care about eternity.  We like to enjoy things NOW, but what happens when you die?  Pour out your life to God and into others.  Don’t leave this Earth with all of your perfume.  That you may present God an empty bottle, so that He can reward you with something greater.

Don’t think too much about it.  Just share your testimony or share God’s goodness to others.  Pour out what God gives you into others.  Leave the aroma of God in someone’s life.  Don’t be selfish with God’s goodness.  Someone needs a word that only you can give.

 

Filed under: Reflections, Winning Souls by Adilson Chacón