Hey Questies! :] I apologize for my lack of postage on this blog, but know that I have been reading and LOVING these posts! Thanks for keeping up with this, y'all - you have no idea how encouraging it is for us counselors to see your questions and thoughts. This week I'm in Sky 2 (since it's the last week of camp and we're all re-arranged as Cam said a few posts previously), and it's tough. I'm having a hard time being content with where I'm at this week, but I know this is where the Lord can use me the most. It's just hard, because I miss Quest so much it hurts. Several times a day my heart aches to be back with y'all, back doing MyRide stuff... Behind Closed Doors... The Reactor... Bible study... getting up in the mornings and helping you girls with Bible study... ahh my heart is aching just thinking about it! But I know that the Lord is good... and this week I have a different role. I am pouring into these girls who will hopefully someday become Quest campers. It's just hard.
Anyway, so it's my night off and I'm sitting at Rockwells reading John 12. I absolutely LOVE it when Mary breaks and pours her alabaster jar over Jesus' feet. It was such an expensive and treasured thing, that alabaster jar, and she chose to spend it on Jesus. Wow. I just love her submissive, obedient, humble heart. I love how she simply sits at Jesus' feet and delights in His presence. I want to be more like this girl!
I love how Jesus defends her after Judas asks why the perfume wasn't sold and "given to the poor" (aka put into his own pocket) by saying, "Leave her alone... you will always have the poor with you, but you won't always have me."
From Matthew's perspective of this same story, Jesus says, "Why have you bothered this woman? She has done a beautiful thing to me."
Oh, how I long for Jesus to say that about me someday. Not for the things that I have done or to get recognition for them, but to know that He has delighted in my service. "She has done a beautiful thing to me." The same thing goes for the guys - wouldn't it be incredible to hear Jesus say, "He has done a beautiful thing to me." ?!
May we lay everything down at Jesus's feet. He is our Master, our Lover, our Savior... He deserves our very best. He deserves the alabaster jars of our life. What is it for you? What is your alabaster jar? What is it that you are keeping for yourself, or giving to someone else? Jesus wants it for Him. He loves us with a jealous love! He wants all of you for all of Him. And not just because He says so, but because He deserves it! Let's give Him our best today, and tomorrow, and the next day. May we daily break our alabaster jars at our Savior's feet!
"She has done a beautiful thing to me." - Matthew 26:10
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