21/08/2026
๐ฃ๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐ถ๐ ๐ผ๐๐
In Luke 7:37-39 there was a woman known as a sinner, just like all of us. She carried an alabaster flask of ointment and stood behind Jesus. She was weeping on His feet, and began to wet them with her tears. She wiped them with her hair, kissed His feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
This woman was sinful yet she encountered the forgiveness and grace of Christ. She did not merely bring something valuable; she was willing to pour it out before Jesus. That alabaster was expensive enough to be kept, saved, or secured. Yet, when she encountered Jesus, she considered Him worthy of what she had.
Sometimes, our alabaster contains our pride, shame, comfort, plans, time, talents, or ambition that may be hard for us to let go. However, are you willing to break that alabasterโto pour it out, and to let it be opened and exposed before Jesus? For He calls us to surrender to Him. The thing about that alabaster you are protecting is not whatโs inside of it, but the evidence that it was opened and poured out, that it was totally submitted to Him.
What this woman did was a humble representation of surrendering and submission, hence, an act of worship. And true worship costs something greater than money. The cost of the oil are the things we have chosen to surrender, walk through, and what our worship has cost us.
Just like what the woman has been through, which is not known to us, we only saw how she poured out her oil in the alabaster for Jesus; we never saw what things she has to let go, to surrender, and to walk away from behind it.
So, let what you have been holding be surrendered at the feet of Jesus, even when surrender costs you something.
๐๐๐ฉ ๐ฎ๐ค๐ช๐ง ๐๐ก๐๐๐๐จ๐ฉ๐๐ง ๐๐ง๐๐๐ .