She Hath Done What She Could

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Short Summary
The vesper service reflected on the devotion of Mary and Martha to Jesus, emphasizing the value of heartfelt worship and service over mere busyness. Using scriptural accounts, it highlighted Mary’s act of anointing Jesus with costly perfume as a profound expression of love and sacrifice, encouraging believers to offer their own sincere devotion despite its seeming smallness. The message called for imitating Christ’s love by serving one another with genuine care, symbolized as pouring out the sweet perfume of kindness and humility.

Long Summary
Detailed Summary of the Vesper Service: “She Hath Done All That She Could”

Opening and Setting the Tone
– The service began with warm greetings and appreciation for the day’s spiritual fellowship and temporal blessings, including a delightful dinner and rich spiritual food.
– The atmosphere was set as more relaxed and reflective compared to earlier convention sessions.
– The worship opened with hymn number 295A, with the words displayed on the screen for congregational singing.
– Brother Paul Bremerton closed the service with a prayer, thanking God for the opportunity to gather and asking for blessings upon Brother Brett Blackwell, who would deliver the vesper.

Introduction by Brother Brett Blackwell
– Expressed gratitude for the convention hospitality and fellowship.
– Encouraged the congregation to momentarily “put aside” the lessons and blessings of the day to imagine themselves in a biblical scene with Jesus, walking the earth as a man.
– Quoted the opening hymn’s sentiment about the sweetness of Jesus’ name and the blessed hope of seeing His face and resting in His presence.
– Emphasized the disciples’ heartfelt experience as they followed Jesus, despite not knowing what was to come.

Biblical Examples of Seeking Jesus and His Healing
– Recalled the story of the Samaritan woman at the well who recognized Jesus as the Christ.
– Mentioned the Canaanite woman who sought healing for her daughter and was commended by Jesus for her faith (Matthew 15:28).
– Highlighted the woman with a 12-year issue of blood who touched Jesus’ garment in faith and was healed (Luke 8:48).

The Story of Martha and Mary (Luke 10:38-42)
– Sister Camille Martin read Luke 10:38-42.
– Jesus visits the home of Martha and Mary. Martha is busy with preparations while Mary sits at Jesus’ feet listening.
– Jesus gently rebukes Martha, saying Mary has chosen the “good part” that will not be taken away.
– The lesson highlights the priority of spiritual devotion over worldly distractions.

The Raising of Lazarus and Jesus’ Compassion (John 11:28-29, 32, 35)
– Sister Sarah Goodman read these verses.
– Lazarus is sick; Martha and Mary send for Jesus. Jesus delays, and Lazarus dies.
– Martha expresses faith in the resurrection; Mary shows deep sorrow and falls at Jesus’ feet.
– Jesus is moved and weeps, showing His deep compassion and empathy for human sorrow.
– This passage illustrates Jesus as a sympathetic High Priest who shares in human grief.

Hymn 259: “Savior, Thy Dying Love”
– The congregation sang this hymn, reflecting on Jesus’ sacrifice and love.

The Anointing of Jesus by Mary (Mark 14:3-9 and John 12:3)
– Sister Julie Vasilevich read Mark 14:3-9.
– A woman (Mary) anoints Jesus’ head with expensive perfume; some criticize her for wasting resources.
– Jesus defends her, stating she has done a good deed, preparing Him for burial, and that her act will be remembered wherever the gospel is preached.
– Added from John 12:3: Mary anoints Jesus’ feet and wipes them with her hair, filling the house with fragrance.
– Symbolism: Anointing the head and feet shows total devotion and honor.
– Contrasts Mary’s spiritual devotion with Martha’s practical service.
– The fragrance symbolizes Jesus’ coming sacrifice.

Excerpts from Reprint Article 3534: “Perfume Very Precious”
– Sister Laurie Jesuit read excerpts explaining the rarity and costliness of such perfumes.
– Mary esteemed Jesus above herself, honoring Him privately in her home.
– The act represented deep love, reverence, and recognition of Jesus as Son of God.
– Jesus’ prophecy that her act would be remembered is seen as a memorial of her loving heart.
– The perfume’s costliness was “extremely cheap” compared to the blessing it produced.

Lessons on Our Offerings to the Lord
– Although our offerings may seem small compared to Jesus’ greatness, He treasures them.
– We are encouraged to give what we can, like Mary did.
– Emphasis on personal devotion and love toward the Lord and one another.

Reference to Another Anointing (Luke 7:44)
– Jesus spoke of a sinning woman who anointed His feet with tears and perfume.
– This teaches the importance of humble, loving acts toward Jesus and His followers.
– Encouragement to “wash each other’s feet” with love, humility, and compassion.

Reading from Manna (November 17th): “She Has Done What She Could” (Mark 14:8)
– Sister Hannah Pope read this devotional.
– We cannot meet Jesus physically but may anoint His brethren with love, sympathy, joy, and peace.
– Our hearts should be like alabaster boxes filled with sweet perfumes of kindness, especially toward fellow believers.
– The blessing we give to others is considered service unto Christ Himself.

Closing Reflections and Application
– Recap of the heart of Mary: her childlike, devoted love and the “good part” Jesus commended.
– Reflection on Jesus’ sacrifice, His emotional connection to mankind, and His love poured out for us.
– Reminder of the hope Jesus gave His disciples and those who would join His family in the kingdom.
– The challenge: choosing where to “sit” – at Jesus’ feet in devotion, like Mary.
– Question posed to the congregation: What is our “spikenard” (our precious offering in heart and deed), and when will we pour it out?
– Final prayer for the Lord’s blessing on these thoughts.

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### Key Bible Verses Referenced:
Matthew 15:28 – Jesus heals the Canaanite woman’s daughter because of her faith.
Luke 8:48 – Jesus tells the woman healed of bleeding, “Thy faith hath made thee whole.”
Luke 10:38-42 – Martha and Mary; Mary chooses the good part by sitting at Jesus’ feet.
John 11:28-29, 32, 35 – Mary and Martha’s grief over Lazarus; Jesus weeps.
Mark 14:3-9 – Mary anoints Jesus’ head with costly perfume.
John 12:3 – Mary anoints Jesus’ feet and wipes them with her hair.
Luke 7:44 – Sinning woman anoints Jesus’ feet with tears and perfume.
Ephesians 5:1-2 – “Be imitators of God… and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us… as a fragrant aroma.”
Mark 14:8 – “She hath done what she could.”

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This vesper service beautifully blends scriptural narrative, hymnody, and inspired commentary to encourage believers to offer their love and devotion to Jesus as Mary did—with the “good part” of attentive faith and loving sacrifice—while reflecting on the profound compassion and sacrifice of Christ.

Transcript

Well brethren, it’s time we get started this evening. We trust that everyone had a delightful dinner. If you didn’t, you didn’t eat over there because the food was great and the fellowship was even better and we’ve had rich spiritual food all day, and now at the end of the day it’s time for something a little more relaxed. We’re going to have a vesper service and worship our heavenly father.

So we’re very thankful for that and this service will be our brother Brett Blackwell. I’m really looking forward to it. It’s nice in the evening to have something a little slower and to reflect, and we’re going to open with the singing of hymn number 295A. Did I touch it?

Okay, the expert will be up here in a minute to run it. The words will be on the screen, and then at the close we’re going to have brother Paul Bremerton from southwest Florida open with a word of prayer. So 295A.

Sam.

Our dear heavenly Father, we come before you thanking you for such a wonderful time to get away from the stresses of the world and to fellowship with like minded individuals who have the same heart condition to want to serve and benefit mankind, and as we see these days drawing close we could just see the sad state that the humans are in. From everything from economics to health to social, political, everything going on in the world is just crying out for your kingdom, and we look forward to this coming new age that you have in store for everyone. Please thank you for the brethren who prepared such wonderful parts and talks and took the time to do all this and thank you for this wonderful day.

And please bless brother Brett in his conclusion as he does his part and to send everyone safely home and to enjoy the the abundance of a spiritual fellowship and association and knowledge and hollowed be thy sacred name, and we once again thank you through your son Christ Jesus. Amen.

So dear brethren, I don’t know about you, but I’ve been looking forward to this service all day. It’s different, it’s a little more relaxed, but yet we’re praising our Heavenly Father, which is all of our intention, and brother Brett has selected for his title for his vesper. She hath done all that she could. Brother Brett.

Thank you brother Bob and thank you brother Paul for that lovely prayer. Well brethren, we’re blessed to be here at convention as we announced yesterday and brought you love from whence we come and also from our family. At this time we are reflecting back on a blessed second day of convention and we can hardly believe that it’s two thirds over. What a bounty. What a feast that we’ve been able to share together.

What a privilege to be able to share mostly the bonds that we have in Christ.

So before we begin our vesper service, I do want to thank the brethren here in Orlando for putting on the convention, for your tremendous hospitality in both your temporal provisions as well as the spiritual ones, and we’d also like to thank our hosts, Brother Adam and Sister Sarah Goodman and the Vasileviches and the Whitakers who’ve entertained us as well. We have been graciously accommodated and the fellowship has been sweet. We have truly been blessed. So at this time, what we’d like to do is we’d like to take all of these blessings from the lessons, from the studies, the discourses, from the fellowship and our bonds and just put them aside for a minute.

Not for long, just for a minute. Keep them right there. But let’s put ourselves in a different place and in a different time, and let’s imagine that we are with our Lord as He is, walking the earth as a man, and let’s try to put ourselves into the characters that we’re going to consider in our lesson this evening.

So take this sentiment from our opening hymn. Jesus, the very thought of Thee with sweetness fills my breast.

This thought which gives us the simple, blessed hope that is before us, but even more than this, the sweet prospect of seeing his face and resting in his presence.

Put yourself in his presence this evening and imagine the future of being fully at rest therein.

Consider these words. No voice can sing, no heart can frame, nor can the membrane find a sweeter sound than Thy blessed name, O Savior of mankind. I think the disciples truly felt this in their hearts as they walked the earth with him, not knowing what would come, of course, but understanding who he was.

Does the mere mention of his name make you pause and make your heart swell?

O hope of every contrite heart. O joy of all the meek to those who ask, how kind Thou art, how good to those who seek.

Remember the many times that you’ve read of Jesus. Gracious, kind and loving words to those who in genuine desire sought his counsel, sought his comfort, his virtue and his healing.

But what to those who find? Ah, this. Nor tongue nor pen can show the love of Jesus what it is. None but his beloved. His loved ones know well, brethren, the love of Jesus.

You are in the precious group of the few who are blessed to know what that is, and there were many that walked the earth at his time that encountered Jesus and felt his love, but perhaps not to the fullness that you feel it wrapped with the spirit that he’s given you. Through the Heavenly Father’s power.

Many sincerely wanted Jesus. Remember the Samaritan woman at the well that was convinced that he was the Christ?

You remember the Canaanite woman whose daughter was possessed? She sought a crumb from the master’s table, a table from which she knew she could not eat, and yet, despite she had faith, Jesus, because of that faith, healed her daughter. That’s Matthew 15:28. Do you remember the woman who was in the crowd?

She had a 12 year issue of blood, and she strained desperately against the crowd and custom and all forms of politeness to reach and grab and touch his garment.

And after he turned around and asked who that was and saw her, she fell at his feet, at his feet, and he said, be of good comfort. Thy faith has made thee whole. Luke 8:48.

Well, let’s turn to chapter 10 of Luke, and we’re going to have a reading. So if we could have a microphone over to Sister Camille Martin, please. We’re going to read From Luke, chapter 10, verses 38 to 42.

Martha and Mary. Now, as they were traveling along, he entered a village and a woman named Martha welcomed him into her home. She had a sister called Mary who was seated at the Lord’s feet listening to his word. But Martha was distracted with all her preparations, and she came up to him and said, lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to do all the serving alone?

Then tell her to help me. But the Lord answered and said to her, martha, Martha, you are worried and bothered about so many things. But only one thing is necessary, for Mary has chosen the good part, which shall not be taken away from her. Thank you. Well, brethren, this is an example of two dear sisters, Martha and Mary, who desperately sought after the Lord.

And they were loving and devoted to him throughout their lives, as we see as their patterns described in Scripture, and Martha poured out her heart in serving Jesus as the host. Gracious hospitality. What did Mary do? Where was she?

She was at Jesus’s feet, and what did Jesus tell her?

Well, told Martha. When Martha was complaining she had no help. He said that Mary had the good part. She sought after the right thing, to be at the feet of her Lord and Savior. Well, we know that there are many more examples in Scripture of those who sought healing, who sought to be with the Lord.

And one of the greatest healings that our Lord ever did, of course, was the raising from the dead. Not in the complete sense, not in the final sense, but for those who had suffered great tragedy. He used his teaching of what it meant to be asleep or dead, if you will, as a teaching tool, and the greatest of those examples that he taught was the raising of his friend Lazarus, and who was Lazarus related to but Martha and Mary?

And so this family would get another story upon which that they could tell of their love for our Lord and he could show them his love for them. While we won’t read the full account of this incredible miracle, but we’d like to call attention again to one of the characters that’s involved in this event. Mary, the sister, of course, to Martha. So let’s set the scene. Lazarus is sick.

His sisters Mary and Martha send word for Jesus to come, presumably so that he could be healed. But Jesus, what does he do? He delays and he waits. There’s a bigger lesson that’s going to come from this, more than just healing. By the time Jesus gets there, Lazarus has been dead for four days.

And Martha, the practical one, tells Jesus that had he been there, Lazarus would not have died. Calmly, she says, I know that he shall rise again in the last day. The witness in Martha’s heart was tremendous from what Jesus had given her. But let’s pick up some more from this story. From John, chapter 11, we’re going to have Sister Sarah Goodman read verses 28, 29 and 32, 35.

When she had said this, she went away and called Mary, her sister, saying secretly, the teacher is here and is calling for you, and when she heard it, she got up quickly and was coming to him. Therefore, when Mary came where Jesus was, she saw him and fell at his feet, saying to him, lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. When Jesus therefore saw her weeping and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and was troubled and said, where have you laid him? They said to him, lord, come and see.

Jesus wept. Well, brethren, this is another blessed passage, and do you note here that Mary repeats the words of Martha, saying, lord, if you’d been here, my brother would not have died.

But there was a difference. Jesus didn’t react to Martha this way, the way that he does in this part of the verse. Mary’s weeping touched him. His beautiful heart recognized the pain and the loss in Mary’s heart. He was deeply moved, troubled in spirit, as the scripture says.

And as a result, he wept. What precious love from our Savior. Doesn’t this paint an incredible picture of who he was touched by more than a feeling of our infirmities. He felt that sin, but he also felt our sorrow. He felt the results of what sin did.

Could you imagine a better and more sympathetic high priest? Of course not, and this was just Jesus as a man in the flesh, not perfected as a spirit being or even with the same power that he had before, let alone the glory that was to come.

But if you note, Jesus here wasn’t just living his life. What was he doing? He was pouring out the life that he had as a man. He was laying down his life for those that he called his friends and those that he did not know. He lived his life with meaningful virtue in every word and in every kind act.

He truly was the epitome of God’s love. Well, brethren, let’s sing together Hymn 259, Savior, thy dying Love, and the words will be on the screen, Sam, Sa.

All that I am and have thy gift so free all of my ransom life, dear Lord, for thee and when thy face I see Thy sweet well done shall be through all eternity enough for me. Well, this is what our Savior’s dying love should affect in our heart.

A few days before his crucifixion, Jesus was once again found in Bethany at the home of Mary and Martha, and this perhaps is one of the greatest stories, one of the greatest non miracles that happens in the course of our Lord’s ministry here on earth, and so what we’ll do now is have Sister Julie Vasilevich read from Mark, chapter 14, verses 3 to 9.

While he was in Bethany at the home of Simon the Leper, and reclining at the table, there came a woman with an alabaster vial of very costly perfume of pure nard, and she broke the vial and poured it over his head. But some were indignantly remarking to one another, why has this perfume been wasted? For this perfume might have been sold for over 300 denarii and the money given to the poor, and they were scolding her.

But Jesus said, let her alone. Why do you bother her? She has done a good deed to me. For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you wish you can do good to them. But you do not always have me.

She has done what she could. She has anointed my body beforehand for the burial. Truly I say to you, wherever the gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of in memory of her. Thank you, Sister Julie. Well, brethren, if you take this picture, imagine the scene of Mary being in the position of anointing Jesus before his death.

And the effect that this has. We’re going to add to this picture a little bit from John, chapter 12, verse 3, and this is a different account of what Sister Julie read. Mary then took a pound of very costly perfume of pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair, and the house was filled with the fragrance of her perfume.

There’s two notable things in this account that are of difference to the one that was previously read, and I think they add to the picture and enhance it for us. The first is you’ll note that in this verse, the feet are those that are anointed or wiped with her hair, whereas in the verse read previously from Mark, Jesus head was anointed, and I think there’s a beautiful picture here of this oil being poured upon Jesus head by Mary and it flowing down onto the feet where she wipes it with her hair. Beautiful picture, and we don’t know, of course, exactly how that happened, but I like the thought that it was a comprehensive anointing of our Lord.

And it reminds us, of course, of the other pictures of anointing that we have in Scripture, notably of the high priest.

There’s also something else here, and you’ll note that the fragrance of the perfume, which was just noted as an aroma in Mark, is here noted as something that filled the whole house, and so that wonderful savor, that wonderful smell that would have been given off a beautiful picture of our Lord’s coming sacrifice and the service that Mary performed upon him by anointing him and then ultimately by completing that with his feet. We note again the contrast between Mary and her sister Martha. Remember how Martha here was the one that was sitting at our Lord’s feet, and remember before she was there listening as if she were a child to what he had to teach.

She was oblivious to the noble work that her sister was performing, and she truly recognized the good part of being at the feet of her master.

So, brethren, we ask, what should be our focus when we have the Lord with us now at his return?

Well, Brother Russell has lots of great comments on this in numerous reprint articles. We’d like to read from one of those. It’s a reprint 3534, and it’s entitled Perfume Very Precious, and Sister Laurie, Jesuit, will read some excerpts from that article.

The use of such expensive perfumes was very rare indeed. Even the emperors used it sparingly, but when used, it was generally poured upon the head. Mary followed this custom in pouring it upon the Lord’s head, as Matthew and Mark recount. But having done this, she proceeded to his feet and anointed them with the perfume, and then wiped his feet with the long tresses of her hair. What a picture of loving devotion is here given us.

The feet always recognized as the humblest and lowest members of the human frame. The hair of the head, especially of women, always recognized as a special treasure and glory to her. Here thus brought together in a way which signified that Mary esteemed her Lord and master as infinitely above and beyond her. She had recognized him first as the most wonderful of men, speaking as never man spake. She had come afterwards to understand that he was a great teacher, especially sent at a special time.

And finally, through the awakening of Lazarus from the sleep of death. She had evidence that the power of the Almighty was in him, that he was none other than the Son of God, and she appropriately did him the reverence due his exalted station. She could not put him on the throne of earth, but she would show that she was his devoted servant forever. She could not glorify him before all the people of Israel, but she could glorify and honor him in her own home.

She could not tell his praises and sing his worth, but she could sing and make melody in her own heart and pour upon him a perfume which not only filled her home with its sweet savor, but which has yielded a tender fragrance to the honor of womankind in general. From her day to the present time she hath done what she could, said the Lord. She has shown her devotion to the best of her ability. How true the remainder of our Lord’s prophecy on the subject. Wherever this gospel is preached, this thing shall be told as a memorial of her.

A sweet memorial of a sweet character and loving heart. Considered in the light of the odor and blessing and refreshment which it has shed upon all of the Lord’s people. Throughout this gospel age. Mary’s alabaster jar of precious perfume, very costly, has proven to be extremely cheap. Thank you, Sister Laurie.

Mary esteemed her Lord and master as infinitely above and beyond her. She could not glorify him before all the people of Israel, but she could glorify and honor him in her own home. She poured upon him a perfume which not only filled her home with its sweet savor, but which has yielded a tender fragrance to the honor of womankind in general. From her day to the present time, and considered in the light of the odor and blessing and refreshment which it has shed upon all of the Lord’s People throughout this gospel age, Mary’s alabaster jar of precious perfume.

Very costly, proven to be extremely cheap, extremely inexpensive.

Well, brethren, I think we find that that’s the way with our offerings to the Lord. When we look back at what we’re able to offer him, it doesn’t seem like it’s much.

And compared to our Lord’s greatness, it isn’t.

But our Lord values it and treasures it, and he clearly appreciated what Mary did. So much so that he would say that this would be a memorial to her, and this memorial is something that we should remember and continue to share. Well, let’s sing together a hymn that comes out of the camp songbook.

So if you want to follow along with the words on the screen, you can. You’ve got a paper copy which incorrectly has three of the four verses, but it does have four choruses. So the fourth verse will be on the screen. So camp book hymn number 93. She hath done what she could, Sam.

Well, brethren, the words of the last verse struck me in this hymn. We love singing it at camp. It’s very precious time. Any of you have been to camp and heard this song are moved by it? Undoubtedly.

I think we all are in this moment, and this is so precious right here. This is that aroma that fills the house, the house of the Lord. The sacrifice that she gave, pouring out her all for her Lord who was pouring out his all for her, and for all brethren, this is a treasure that we have to give each other to not only wash each other’s feet as we learn from the platform today, and we’ve appreciated at the memorial time as we consider the events of the Last Supper, but to do it in a personal way, with tears and with perfume.

What a blessing. What a lesson for us. What an opportunity, and so we read in Ephesians chapter 5, verses 1 and 2. Therefore, be imitators of God as beloved children and walk in love.

Just as Christ also loved you and gave himself up for us an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma, and we appreciate what the brethren have pulled from this into out of the reprint articles, into the comments, and just a very simple statement from two reprint articles. Although our head has been glorified, we may anoint his feet who are still with us.

Well, brethren, this was not the only anointing that Jesus had in his lifetime. You may recall that there was another house in which Jesus was anointed. Or perhaps it was even the same house. But I think it was a different one. But there was an experience earlier on in his ministry where a sinning woman had the opportunity to wipe Jesus feet.

And Jesus says in Luke 7:44, and he’s talking about the sinning woman, not Mary. Do you see this woman? I entered your house. You gave me no water for my feet. But she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.

You gave me no kiss, but she, since the time I came in, has not ceased to kiss my feet.

You did not anoint my head with oil, but she anointed my feet with perfume. Brethren, this lesson for us. Let us be the ones that are taking advantage of the privilege that we have to wash each other’s feet, to anoint each other’s feet with our tears and that beautiful sweet perfume, as well as anointing each other’s head by honoring our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, through our acts of love towards one another in his name.

At this time we’d like to have Sister Hannah Pope, who’s over there on the other side of the room, read the manna from November17, Manna from November 17th. She has done what she could. Mark 14:8. It is not our privilege to come into personal contact with our dear Redeemer, but it is our privilege to anoint the Lord’s brethren with the sweet perfume of love, sympathy, joy and peace, and the more costly this may be as respects to our self denial, the more precious it will be in the estimation of our elder brother, who declared that in proportion as we do or do not unto his brethren, we do or do not unto him.

Our alabaster boxes are our hearts, which should be full of the richest and sweetest perfumes of good wishes, kindness and love towards all, but especially towards the Christ, towards the head, our Lord Jesus, and towards all the members of his body, the Church, and especially on our part, towards the feet members who are now with us and on whom we have the privilege of pouring out the sweet odors of love and devotion in the name of the Lord, because we are his manna for November 17th. She has done what she could. Mark 14:8.

Thank you, Sister Hannah, and again thank you to all those who read so beautifully tonight. Well, brethren, what do we take away from these thoughts? We can look at the heart of Mary, her childlike love for the Lord, our Lord’s reward to her, the good part, the spiritual blessing that she received.

And sitting there at his feet, we see the sacrifice of our Lord, him pouring himself out with undying love on our behalf. That was his most precious offering that he could offer and Our Lord was merely the Son of the greatest being in the universe, who gave his greatest gift, the life of Jesus, for us and poured him out on our behalf. Can you believe the Heavenly Father did that? When we think about this great offering and the sacrifice of Jesus, we think about the character of our Lord, his emotional response to those who had tears, his genuine connection with mankind, and those who sought after him even though they couldn’t yet receive of his blessings to the full. In terms of his disciples, he left them with promises.

And for those that he couldn’t bless, who would not become his disciples, but would become eventually in the kingdom, a part of his family, he gave them hope and a future perspective on what he was going to bring to the whole world.

And he gave these gifts knowing he was going to die. He gave these gifts knowing that the resurrection of Lazarus would be but temporary.

Our opportunity, brethren, is like Mary’s.

We have a choice of where to sit.

We have an alabaster box, our heart.

What’s in our heart that’s worthy to give to our Heavenly Father, to give to His Son.

Brethren, what is our spikenard?

And when will we pour it?

May the Lord add His blessing to these thoughts.

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