What’s In Your Box?

Luke 7:36-39

36 Then one of the Pharisees asked Him to eat with him. And He went to the Pharisee’s house, and sat down to eat. 37 And behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at the table in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster flask of fragrant oil, 38 and stood at His feet behind Him weeping; and she began to wash His feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head; and she kissed His feet and anointed them with the fragrant oil. 39 Now when the Pharisee who had invited Him saw this, he spoke to himself, saying, “This Man, if He were a prophet, would know who and what manner of woman this is who is touching Him, for she is a sinner.”

What’s in your box?  

Unwanted Opinions

Why do we pay so much attention to other people and what they do? We watch how they dress and how they wear their hair. We watch all the things people say and do and then give our opinion about what they are doing as if what we think about them somehow matters.  

All day long we share our opinions about everyone and everything. The internet has become one big toilet bowl full of unwanted and unnecessary opinions. 

You Don’t Know

Do you want to know something? We don’t have a clue where someone else has been or what is in their personal alabaster box. It’s easy to stand up and tell everyone else they don’t know the price of your oil, but have you ever stopped to think you don’t know the price of theirs. 

Maybe they don’t even have a clue yet. Everyone hasn’t been shaken by God yet the way others have. Some people are just getting started. They haven’t figured out that their praise is a weapon, or that battles are fought on your knees with hands held up to Heaven. 

Stop Assuming

We, the church, need to stop assuming that people know all the things we know. Who in the world are we to say that someone should be ashamed for this or that. Have you taken the time to even know who they are or where they have been? 

I recall a time when I was young in the Lord and I could not raise my hands to praise. It wasn’t because I was lazy, selfish or stubborn or the many other reasons I would hear people in the church say. You know why I couldn’t raise my hands? Even though I had asked God into my heart. Even though He had forgiven me for the things I’d done in my past I felt like I wasn’t good enough to raise my hand and thank Him. 

Open Your Own Box

That may sound silly to someone who has been a Christian a long time and knows more of the Word than I did at that time, but everyone that comes into the church doesn’t know all the things you do right away. 

Open your own box and take a look again. Remember what it was like for you. Show compassion and love when necessary and keep your opinions to yourself.  You will reap what you have sown. Will it be unwanted and unnecessary opinions?

Bible reading: Luke Chapter 7

***Lord, thank you for reminding me to take a look at myself and my own personal relationship with You instead of worrying about what others are or aren’t doing. Please don’t ever let me get off on the path of judging others while there is much to do in my own walk, Lord. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.***

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