Not Needed

What do you still have that you really don’t need anymore? Maybe an old VHS video recorder;  you still have it somewhere but when is the last time you have used it? An old computer, an old camera that uses real film, a cassette player we all have things we don’t need or use. There was a woman of the night in the days of Jesus that used a costly perfume she though it had powers of attraction. One night she heads out on her nightly journey; she sees a crowd, she hears a voice and then she finds herself face to face with a man named Jesus. That night she heard and she forgot the purpose of her coming into the city. She returns back home with the words of Jesus ringing in her heart and she felt unclean. This woman returns to Jesus but this time the perfume is not on her body but in the box.

Luke 7:37  And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment,

What will she do with the box of perfume?

Luke 7:38  And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.

Her heart is broken and then she does something amazing she begins to wash Jesus feet with her tears that came from her broken heart. She then begins to wipe them with the hair of her head and then she begins to kiss Jesus feet. Then she takes her treasure and anoints the feet of Jesus and the odor filled the room

John 12:3  Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

Now that didn’t go over very well in the home of the Pharisee and he now questions the credentials of Jesus

Luke 7:39  Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spake within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him: for she is a sinner.

Judged convicted and sentenced as far as he was concerned for this was the worst kind of sinner; why she was a woman of the night. Aren’t you glad Jesus can and does see the inside of our heart; it’s not what others may think it’s what He knows. Without a word this woman speaks with her actions and Jesus speaks to her.

Luke 7:48  And he said unto her, Thy sins are forgiven.  Did you notice that she was not commanded to reach new heights in her morals, why Jesus didn’t even tell her to go to the synagogue?  What do we see in that broken box? A life that wasn’t needed or desired anymore. She gave it all up and was placed in the family of God; got anything you don’t need anymore?