The Passion Week

One of our staff pastors gave a wonderful about the Passion Week yesterday. Many of the events of this week can be glossed over before of the main events at the end of the week, and rightly so. After all, it is the passion of the death and resurrection that keeps me going from day to day. One of this week that needs a brief talking about is Christ anointing at the home of Simon the leper. It was there that Mary of Bethany anointed Jesus. Judas was critical of this supposed "waste" of expensive oil, but he wasn’t concerned about the poor. Long before, Judas had chosen himself over the person of Christ and really ignored that events that were unfolding before him. It was at this critical time, after Jesus rebuked him, he left and went into Jerusalem to bargain with the religious leaders to betray Jesus.

Now before we get on Judas case, we to need to take a moment of reflection too. What would we have done depends on our state of heart. Are we looking for his way or are we looking for our way? It really is so easy to flow into thinking about us after all, we live with ourselves a long time. But the story of Christ anointing allows us to center ourselves around the fact that we need to think of others, even though it may cost us.

Have an Awesome Day

David