POUR IT OUT
Hey Fam,
I was reading the Bible and this verse in Matthew 26:6 just jumped out at me and I just had to make a video about it
"While Jesus was in Bethany in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, which she POURED on his head as he was reclining at the table"
I was like wow, she wasted no time. She saw the opportunity and went for it. Around this time perfume in alabaster jar cost about a year's worth of wages! But she took the risk and poured it all out on Jesus. She POURED IT OUT!
What can you pour it all into this week?
What opportunity God has presented to you to pour your all into?
A couple of things I learned
1) Always Be Ready
2) Don't Care What Others Think (Sometimes you need to ignore conventional wisdom)
3) How To Pour It Out
After she poured it out, the disciples were not pleased and told her she could have sold it and given it to the poor. But Jesus said ya'll need to be quiet what she did to me was beautiful and she will be remembered forever for this action. And she was, she was written in the Gospel for one action of faith.
This lady didn't listen to the naysayers, she didn't listen to the "experts'' , she didn't listen to society, she didn't listen to religion and "wait on the Lord" because the presence of GOD WAS RIGHT THERE! (As it always is for all of us, even though we may not feel it, he is in us and around us at all times) she listened to her gut and just went for it. She was not looking at tomorrow, she was not looking at next week. She was looking at RIGHT NOW. This is true faith. IF WE DON'T HAVE FEAR, THEN WE DON’T NEED FAITH. Faith is stepping into something not knowing the outcome, not knowing if it will work or not. But knowing that Jesus will catch us if we fall and redirect us. And if it is a victory, even better.
While she was pouring the perfume, she may have thought "man this might not work but f*ck it" Do we need a f*ck it moment? We might need to send that email, make that call, go to that audition, write that script, ask that girl out, buy the course, fix your resume, sketch the design, do that workout, reach out for forgiveness, clean that room we have been drudgin over.
There is something God is telling you to do RIGHT NOW. Not tomorrow or next week. If you do it right now you will be honored. HE DOESN'T GIVE YOU THE FULL PLAN ONLY THE NEXT STEP. He gives you your daily bready today. In my experience, the next step will always reveal itself.
"8 When the disciples saw this, they were indignant. “Why this waste?” they asked. 9 “This perfume could have been sold at a high price and the money given to the poor.”
10 Aware of this, Jesus said to them, “Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a beautiful thing to me. 11 The poor you will always have with you,[a] but you will not always have me. 12 When she poured this perfume on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial. 13 Truly I tell you, wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her.”
May God bless you his week and make sure to POUR IT OUT!!
In Gratitude,
Kevin