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Matthew 26:6-9 Meanwhile, Jesus was in Bethany at the home of Simon, a man who had leprosy. During supper, a woman came in with a beautiful jar of expensive perfume and poured it over His head. The disciples were indignant when they saw this. “What a waste of money,” they said. “She could have sold it for a fortune and given the money to the poor.” (NLT)

Luke 7:36-38 One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to come to his home for a meal, so Jesus accepted the invitation and sat down to eat. A certain immoral woman heard He was there and brought a beautiful jar filled with expensive perfume. Then she knelt behind Him at His feet, weeping. Her tears fell on His feet, and she wiped them off with her hair. Then she kept kissing His feet and putting perfume on them. (NLT)

One Sunday as Mark was teaching on these scriptures, which I had read, heard a million times, and thought about much, I was pierced in my heart.

I saw these women giving everything they had…their whole selves in worship. They were expressing their love with their whole hearts to the One who loves them with His whole heart.

Of course, everyone had an opinion about these precious women. The disciples and Simon, a Pharisee were in an uproar. “She’s wasting that perfume. She could sell it for a fortune and give the money to the poor, and to top it off, she’s immoral.”

Everyone’s got an opinion, and boy don’t we like to share it.

An opinion is what one thinks; a belief not so strong as knowledge; a judgment.

Maybe we are the fashion critic, the food critic at the dinner table, the worship song choice critic, the how we love, how we worship, how much we give in time, money, and how we express Christ critic.

Opinions can hurt, sway you from God’s word to you, make you doubt and feel unsure, especially if these opinions come from someone we see as a leader or someone we love and respect. We can be giving everything we have, expressing Christ in us with the fullness of Him in our hearts, and someone can come along and bat us down with one word.

People, let’s stop knocking each other down and practice not sharing our opinion unless it’s asked for. Instead, let us:

1 Thessalonians 5:11a Therefore encourage one another and build each other up… (NIV)

Let’s stop and think before we speak, and not put unfair expectations on each other.

Let’s look at each other and see the Christ they express and encourage that expression.

Proverbs 27:19 As a face is reflected in water, so the heart reflects the person. (NLT)

Our expressions of Christ look different, and to me, that is the beauty of Him…multi-faceted, complete love shared.

1 Peter 3:8 Finally, all of you should be of one mind, full of sympathy toward each other, loving one another with tender hearts and humble minds. (NLT)

Ephesians 4:16 From whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love. (NIV)

 

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Dawn's heart is to encourage the Body so that all would come to see the Christ-life as all-living, life-giving truth, that we would all walk in the Holy Spirit to such fullness that anyone we come in contact with comes in contact with the living God. (Ephesians 4:23-24) She has always liked writing and in March 2007, the Lord gave her 1 Peter 4:10-11 As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen. Dawn is very blessed to be married to her best friend, Ron, who continually nourishes her with the washing of the Word. They currently live in Oklahoma, and have two married sons, an adult daughter, six granddaughters and two grandsons.

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