Evening: Psalms 12, 13, 14; Mark 14:1-11
Jesus is nobody’s flunky. He panders to nobody, needs no-one’s approval. He knows who he is. Jesus shows that service is what will set this world to rights. He makes enemies among the powerful who expect people to serve their priorities. Even one of Jesus’s own friends doubts him enough to betray him. Many little ‘gods’ demand loyalty in exchange for some counterfeit power or status. But when the woman anoints Jesus’s feet with oil because he is soon to die, she wants only to serve him, to give not get. She seeks nothing and yet she receives immeasurable grace.
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