Giving in Loving
Service
Mary's ointment was wasted when she broke the
vase and poured it upon her Lord.
Yes; but suppose she
had left the ointment in the unbroken vase? What remembrances
would it then have had?
Would there have been
any mention of it on the Gospel pages? Would her deed of
careful keeping have been told over the world?
She broke the vase and
poured it out, lost it, sacrificed it, and now the perfume
fills all the earth.
We may keep our life
if we will, carefully preserving it from waste; but we shall
have no reward, no honor from it, at the last. But if we empty
it out in loving service, we shall make it a lasting blessing
to the world, and we shall be rememberd
forever.
~J. R.
Miller
