The Alabaster Box
Luke 7:37 (Amplified Bible)
37And behold, a woman of the town who was an especially wicked sinner, when she learned that He was reclining at table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster flask of ointment (perfume).
The other day as my mother and I were driving to a destination a song came on the radio that spurred a memory. It reminded me of a time when I wanted a jewelry box, it wasn’t just any type of jewelry box it was one that was donned in my favorite colors of pink and purple and it had a beautiful and delicate ballerina positioned inside the lower panel and when the box was opened music would play music (a waltz of some sort) and the ballerina would spin around graceful and poised. This jewelry box to me represented something beautiful, but also something that would safe guard what I valued as my treasure. Well I had eyed this box and not so suitably reminded my parents that this was my deepest desire. For my birthday I was graced with what I treasured as my alabaster box, to me it was pure and it was impenetrable, it would keep my jewelry (fake and real) and simple treasure safe, encased until the time when I would need these precious items.
As we continued our journey that day as I reminisced, I found myself searching for answers, searching for what was it that encased and kept safe the things that I valued as precious and special. Well, it is funny because I found that it was my heart and my spirit that had now become the Alabaster box. It was here that I housed the most important things in my life, in these places I could find, God’s love, His peace, His word and His sacrifice (salvation). You see I had become the vessel that housed the most valued items to me. For God had become Spirit and life to me. He had become the breathe that I breathed and the very heart beat of my existence. That is not to say I had become perfect in anyway, it was just to say that the most prized things that I have reside, sheltered inside of me, not because I placed them there, but because God placed them there through my ability to give over my will to His. You see when we place things inside of a safety deposit box, a jewelry box, or a vault, the possession that enters is not in control, but is the one who does the insertion that has full control.
I wonder how many of us have given our hearts, wills and spirits over to God in order for His will, His spirit, His Love and His peace to abide. Have we become the place where God’s most precious and valued gifts can abide or are we still penetrable? Isn’t it time to become the Alabaster Box, the instrument that houses, God’s value and His possessions? Today ask yourself what kind of vessel are you, one fit for the Masters use or one that is not? Are we yielded and ready for use, or are do we lack value and room for anything of value? It is time to shore up ourselves and clean ourselves for God’s perfect storage place.
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