Day 15-Do what you can

My Prayer: Psalm 25:4-5 (New International Version)
4 Show me your ways, O LORD,
teach me your paths;
5 guide me in your truth and teach me,
for you are God my Savior,
and my hope is in you all day long.

The Reading: Mark 12-14
Mark 14:3-9 (New International Version)
3While he was in Bethany, reclining at the table in the home of a man known as Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the perfume on his head.
4Some of those present were saying indignantly to one another, "Why this waste of perfume? 5It could have been sold for more than a year's wages and the money given to the poor." And they rebuked her harshly.
6"Leave her alone," said Jesus. "Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing to me. 7The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them any time you want. But you will not always have me. 8She did what she could. She poured perfume on my body beforehand to prepare for my burial. 9I tell you the truth, wherever the gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her."

My thoughts: There will always be those people who think your gifts aren't enough or at the very least not good enough. They see how much it costs in money and compare it to their own gifts, but Jesus sees the heart. This woman could have sold her perfume and given the money to the poor and been judged well, but she was moved to give it away in an offering to Jesus. It might have been the most precious think she had and she gave it all away. More than a year's wages and she gave it away in an instant. And Jesus says, "She did what she could." And then says that her story will be told wherever the gospel is preached. She got it right. What's her name? I guess it doesn't matter. Jesus knows it and we all know her story. She made a sacrifice, she gave the right thing at the right time. Can the same thing be said of me? I have to do what I can.