After years of hard work trying to build a foundation in other people’s buildings, a pastor was given $100,000 of seed money to plant a church.

Excited about what was to come, he dreamed about the building they would use, the church they would build, and the souls they would save.

And then he was convicted by the Lord.  And it wasn’t what he wanted to hear. He was to give the money to a ministry setting up safe havens for pastors in India that were being prosecuted, even hunted.

Many times we are convicted by the Lord and we do not listen.  And the pastor had known that he was the same way. But in this case, he did listen.

After frustrating years of continuing to use borrowed buildings and renting, he began to doubt.  Had he truly heard from God and done the right thing?  When the frustrations of our own desires push us, we begin to question our faith.

     But he had done the right thing.  As he and his wife sat down to watch a movie years later, they saw the house that the money had built and watched the testimonies of the people he had helped, even saved.  As they sat and watched it play out, the pastor and his wife cried tears of joy.  They had heard God.  God had answered.  The kingdom had been built.  They had SPENT IT.

Mary might have thought the same thing.  She had lavished Jesus with an enormous amount of perfume.  And it probably did not “look” right. It might have even been an awkward scene—-a woman “wasting” money, perfume, and dignity in front of others.

And, of course, Judas saw it immediately.

John 12  2 Here a dinner was given in Jesus’ honor.  Martha served, while Lazarus was among those reclining at the table with him. 3 Then Mary took about a pint of pure nard, an expensive perfume; she poured it on Jesus’ feet and wiped his feet with her hair.  And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. 

But what she did is the entire point of this writing.  When you find the One who can save your life, the One who can save your eternity, you realize that there is nothing else.

I want to encourage you today to snap out of it.

SNAP … OUT … OF … IT

We live in a rat race.  And in that race it is easy to be consumed, and distracted, and lost.  

But in Jesus …

     People are raised from the dead. 

     Lives are restored.

     Broken pieces are put back together.

He is no fool who loses what he cannot keep to gain what he can not earn.

     Jim Elliott

Spend It

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FHwdx5BIvc

In The Name of the Father and the 

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

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Coach J