Flamboyantly Fragrant

I was almost ready. Just one final, indulgent touch and

I was ready to leave. All that was needed was one short

burst of spray mist from my favourite Marc Jacobs

perfume. An expensive indulgence! One quick spray

leaves me smelling as fragrant as a bouquet of summer

blooms on a grassy meadow!

I removed the flowery lid and pressed the nozzle of the spray head down, to squirt its heady scent over me, I stood, ready to breathe in the scintillating burst of aromatic perfume before I left.

But Hey Ho! Instead of being lavished with my feel-good perfume, the spray shot the fragrance into the air away from me and missed me altogether! Oops!

 I really must check the direction of the nozzle next time, for the costly, scintillating, aromatic burst was entirely wasted, gone forever, and not in the direction I had intended. An expensive mistake! I don’t like to be wasteful.            I twisted the bottle around, sprayed again, and got it right second time.

“Why waste such expensive perfume?” they asked. Mark 14:4

One woman in scripture poured a jar of expensive perfume over Jesus as an act of loving adoration, yet she was cruelly scolded by the disciples for being wastefully extravagant. Jesus however, commended her for act of devotion.

Expensive perfume is the height of personal indulgence, yet in Scripture is seen as an image of extravagant worship. Praise to God is a pleasing aroma.                  Why not take a moment today to offer God the fragrance of praise? There is always something to praise Him for.

With Love,    Rev Gill x

‘Leave her alone’ said Jesus. She has done a beautiful thing to me. Mk 14:6