She Got It!!!

Tuesday April 11th, Mark 14:8-9: She poured perfume on my body beforehand to prepare for my burial. I tell you the truth, wherever the gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her." Jesus has been telling the twelve disciples, all the way on their journey from Caesarea Philippi to Jerusalem, what leadership entails. They didn’t get it. Judas takes a very pragmatic approach to ushering in the kingdom by forcing a confrontation between Jesus and the authorities. He didn’t get it either. Mark inserts the story of this unnamed women between those two points. In the midst of it all, she gave of herself totally and worshiped Jesus. She exemplified the concept of servant leader Jesus was trying to get through to the disciples. She becomes the first Christian, worshiping what would be the risen Christ even befor the crucifixion. She got it. Sometimes in the midst of life and, yes, even death, we forget what the center of both life and death is all about. Sometimes we don’t get it. Look to the example of this unnamed women and follow Christ by being a servant leader.