Matthew
26:6-13
“I tell you the truth,
wherever the Good News is preached in all the world, what this woman has done will be
told, and people will remember her.”
(Matthew 26:13)
How will you be remembered? As with many things these days, we consider
such a question from the extremes. One
might humbly say that he or she has done nothing noteworthy that anyone would
remember. Someone else might brashly
profess a desire to be somebody, as if notoriety was the greatest goal of life.
Ignoring your gifts or thinking too highly of yourself, however, aren’t the best
reasons to be remembered.
In those last hours before Jesus’ arrest and crucifixion,
Matthew tells the powerful story of a woman who comes to Jesus, bestowing upon
him a great gift. It is not a gift of wealth, though the perfume she brings was
likely quite expensive. She didn’t come
seeking notoriety or to make a bold statement. Jesus said that by pouring the
perfume on his head, she was preparing his body for burial. It was a gift of love and appreciation that
his followers could not understand. And
yet, Jesus said that what she had done would be remembered whenever the good
news was told. Two thousand years later,
I am telling and you are reading her story…she is being
remembered.
In a moment, under relatively routine circumstances
something marvelous was done. The host,
Simon, didn’t recognize the significance.
The disciples seemed clueless. Jesus, however, knew that a heart had been
transformed and the resulting kindness was worth remembering. In the small things, the seemingly
unimportant movements of your day, it is quite possible that something you say
or do will be remembered by someone.
With every step, every word, and every action, you may share the good
news of Christ that will one day be
remembered.
Prayer: Lord, guide my words and steps that your love may
be remembered through me. Amen.
Jim Abernathy
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