DAILY?READINGS: Gen. 43; Psalms 20-21; Matt. 25:1-30
Then took Mary a pound of… spikenard, very costly. John 12:3
What price was paid for this ointment of spikenard? It is described as expensive (NIV), precious (Mk. 14:3) and very costly. For Mary no price was too high. This was her life sacrifice she was laying at Jesus’ feet. It might have cost three hundred day’s working wages, as Judas adjudged—a waste to cast at Jesus’ feet. But it did not matter. Mary loved her Lord and He was going away soon. He was more important than anything or anyone else. But poor Judas—he was prepared to sell his Lord for just thirty pieces of silver. How distorted his perspective of life’s values! How much is Jesus Christ worth to you? —K. C. Ung
I’d rather have Jesus than silver or gold;
I’d rather be His, than have riches untold. —R. F. Miller