Jesus told his disciples that he is like a man who leaves his house to go away, and he put a servant at the door to keep watch.
Do we all have a Judas within who sometimes confuses light and darkness – and then stubbornly digs in and won’t budge?
“I will continue to say ‘yes’ to life, and all that it brings, because the moment you start saying “no”, you start to die.”
The value of the perfume and the jar was more than a year’s wages. But she didn’t care. She broke it to pour the perfume on Christ’s head.
In our modern, fast-paced world, it can be hard to stop and see the joys of this world. Maybe this passage can challenge us to slow down…
In not answering the leaders of the Sanhedrin directly, Jesus was showing them how little authority they had compared to his.
It is because we are never ready for Christmas that Christ comes to us. When we are at our most inhospitable, the heart of God opens to us.
This world is full of unfairness. And how you handle unfairness can either make you a person of character and integrity, depending on how you respond.
