the Fourth Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 3 of 5
Mark 14:1-16
As the death of the Lord approached, the feelings of people’s hearts become stronger and more open. There is hatred from the rulers of the people as they plot in Jerusalem. There is love in the well-known home at Bethany where this woman performs a "good work" on Him. This is the fruit of intelligent love. What a beautiful illustration of the worship of God’s children! They recognize in the despised Saviour One who is worthy of all homage and by the Spirit and with the sense of their unworthiness, they express to Him this adoration, which is a perfume of inestimable value to His heart. (Let us note that it is men who make an estimate of its value (v. 5) thus reducing everything to a matter of money). The critics do not miss a chance to get at the worshippers, like some believers who put good works or service towards souls before every other Christian activity. Without neglecting these things, let us not forget that praise is the most important of our duties. And let us be content with the Lord’s approval when we perform the holy service of worship with a broken spirit (of which the box is symbolic). Worship has the Lord as its sole object and will alone continue in eternity.
Vv. 10-16 show us the arrangements the disciples make to prepare for the passover . . . and Judas makes for betraying his Master.
