Reckless Abandon: I love the text Matthew 26:6-13. It is an account of a woman who pours perfume on Jesus as he is reclining at the table with his disciples. It is interesting because in the eyes of reason what she did does not make sense. A whole years wages?! Think about what Blood: Water Mission could do with my salary for a year!?! How many wells and how many people could be blessed! But, she pours the perfume on the head of Jesus and he says, "she has done a beautiful thing..." Now my question for myself and you is this, "are we that crazy in love with Jesus?" Have you ever felt like you worshiped him in a way that it didn't matter what others thought, or in a way that could be looked at as reckless? With your time? Money? Energy? Life? Honestly, I have a hard time with this. I want to be known as someone who loses myself in worship to Jesus. And, I want our church to be an expression of this too! A whole group of people who would blow a ton of resources on our Savior! And not even think twice about it. Reckless abandon!
Failing Well: Many of us have been Christians for a while. The truth about being a christian is that it is hard. If you think being a christian is easy than I think you should examine if you are really living up to the calling. Have you died to yourself? Daily? Taken up a heavy cross? Endured suffering? Peter had. Infact, for 3 years he followed Jesus and abandoned family, friends, and his profession to follow his Rabbi (Jesus). Jesus was Peter's best friend and he respected him dearly. But, Jesus was honest when he talked to Peter in verses 31-35. "You will disown me..." Peter you are going to fail. When Jesus wants him to be most couragious, supporting, loving, Peter fails him in the worst way. He not only scattered, he literally denied even knowing who his rabbi, teacher, best friend is!?! Peter failed and the thing about this story is you can expect to fail too. Don't be surprised that as a christian you will mess up. Your flesh is waging war against the spirit and Satan is cunning! Jesus knows this! In fact he prays for you when this happens. In Luke 22:31 Jesus says, Simon(Peter) satan has asked to sift you as wheat. But I have prayed for you. The "you" in that verse is plural in the greek. Satan wants to sift you as wheat. To destroy your faith. But, Jesus is praying for you. He loves you so much that he is constantly before the father asking that he spare you! (Hebrews 7:25) Not if you fail, but when you fail, I want you to know that Jesus is cheering for you! He is saying, "when you return" (Luke 22: 32), when you turn from your sin he is there waiting with open arms to not only recieve you but to give you more responsibility, "Strengthen your brothers." (Luke 22:32)
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