Day2
Mark 14:3
“Now Jesus was in Bethany, in the home of Simon, a man Jesus had healed of leprosy. And as he was reclining at the table, a woman came into the house, with an alabaster flask filled with the highest quality of fragrant and expensive oil. She came to Jesus, and with a gesture of extreme devotion, she broke the flask and poured out the precious oil over his head.”
Mark 14:3 TPT
Cross references
Matthew 26:6–13;
John 12:1–8;
Matthew 21:17;
Luke 7:37–39
Broke and Pour
Just to clarify, I did not misspell the word poor. When we hear broke and poor together it is not appealing to us at all. No one wants that.
In this passage, Mary broke the jar and poured out it’s contents on Jesus’ head.
Not a little, but the whole jar. (In John’s account he tells us that it was 12 ounces)
Alabaster or gypsum is a mineral much like plaster, but more expensive.
This alabaster jar was an earthen vessel.
In Leviticus when one studies the laws of purification, it tells us that all earthen vessels which come in contact with something unclean, must be broken and buried.
We are earthen vessels, made from the dust of the earth.
Mary broke the earthen vessel. She surrendered her will and humbled herself and gave most likely all her savings to Jesus by pouring it all out onto His head. She poured all of herself out.
She broke and poured.
Jesus in the garden broke His will to do the will of His Father and poured out all of Himself on the cross for us. He then was buried in purification.
An earthen vessel must be broken and buried.
Jesus did not stay buried. God raised Him, completely purified. Brand new just like us when we brake our self-will by surrendering to Jesus and pouring ourselves out to Him.
Broke and pour!
Are you broke and pour before Jesus today?
Ask Him to make you brand new!
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