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Mary Anoints Jesus
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Christ knew the circumstances that had shaped Mary’s life. He
might have extinguished every spark of hope in her soul, but He did
not. He had lifted her from despair and ruin. Seven times she had
heard Him rebuke the demons that controlled her heart and mind.
She had heard His strong cries to the Father in her behalf. She knew
how offensive is sin to His unsullied purity, and in His strength she
had overcome.
When to human eyes her case seemed hopeless, Christ saw in
Mary capabilities for good. The plan of redemption has invested
humanity with great possibilities, and in Mary these were to be
realized. Through His grace she became a partaker of the divine
nature. The one who had fallen, whose mind had been a habitation of
demons, was brought near to the Saviour in fellowship and ministry.
Mary sat at His feet and learned of Him; Mary poured on His head
the precious anointing oil and bathed His feet with her tears; Mary
stood beside the cross and followed Him to the sepulcher; Mary was
first at the tomb after His resurrection; Mary first proclaimed a risen
Saviour.
Jesus knows the circumstances of every soul. You may say, I
am sinful, very sinful. You may be; but the worse you are, the more
you need Jesus. He turns no weeping, contrite one away. He freely
pardons all who come to Him for forgiveness and restoration.
The souls that turn to Him for refuge, Christ unites to His own
divine-human nature. No man or evil angel can impeach them. They
stand beside the great Sin Bearer in the light proceeding from the
throne of God. “Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect?
It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that
died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of
God, who also maketh intercession for us.”
Romans 8:33, 34
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