The spikenard oil in the alabastar jar, worth a year’s salary, was offered and poured out over Jesus to prepare him for burial. On today’s show, Dave, Reb and Rev. Ray Borg of Financial Discipleship Canada discuss this act of worship and love, and the attitudes condemning it. They dig into how this act and those attitudes are reflected in our own lives today. 

Their discussion looks at how this story can affect our lives today, both encouraging us to offer something valuable to Jesus, and to be careful how we judge others who offer gifts to Him that we may not understand or appreciate.

“What is the Lord asking of us today that may be costly to us?” Rev. Borg asks. “Our gift is an act of worship to Him, just as it was for her, for the gift he’s given to each of us through His life, death and resurrection.”

And it is in her life and her gift that Jesus sees what the others could not or would not see.

“Leave her alone,” Jesus says. “Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for Me. For you have the poor with you always, and whenever you wish you may do them good; but Me you do not have always. She has done what she could. She has come beforehand to anoint My body for burial. Assuredly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told as a memorial to her.” (Mark 14, NKJV) 

Tune in to her this challenging and encouraging discussion. Today’s show  is sponsored by Financial Advisor Fred Brogan of Kingston’s Empirical Financial – Brogan and Associates. Go to empiricalgroup.ca or call 613-634-9900 for more information.