More Than Ever, week 3: A Home Unguarded
Mark 14:1-11
We guard our homes from
*Jesus has a habit of making homes super
Last week - talked about Jesus making an unexpected home visit to Zacchaeus’ house; this week we find him already in the home of “Simon the Leper” - we don’t know if he was invited or just showed up, but here he is, again, hanging out with the unwanted and the outcast… among others.
1 Now the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread were only two days away, and the chief priests and the teachers of the law were scheming to arrest Jesus secretly and kill him. 2 “But not during the festival,” they said, “or the people may riot.”
3 While he was in Bethany, reclining at the table in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the perfume on his head.
4 Some of those present were saying indignantly to one another, “Why this waste of perfume? 5 It could have been sold for more than a year’s wages and the money given to the poor.” And they rebuked her harshly. 6 “Leave her alone,”said Jesus. “Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing to me. 7 The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them any time you want. But you will not always have me. 8 She did what she could. She poured perfume on my body beforehand to prepare for my burial. 9 Truly I tell you, wherever the gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her.”
10 Then Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went to the chief priests to betray Jesus to them. 11 They were delighted to hear this and promised to give him money. So he watched for an opportunity to hand him over. —Mark 14:1-11
The chief priests and the teachers were plotting a
We need a
Jesus didn’t come and die brutally to fix our lives. He came so that we could share his life.
For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it. —Matthew 16:25
Break-ins feel like a violation of our space, our person, our security, our control. Of course we don’t want anyone to break into our homes or our cars, but the life of faith is an invitation and a prayer that says, “Jesus, break in, break me. More of You, less of me. Not my will, but Yours.”