THE Lord’s ministry had been rejected in this chapter (Matt. 26:1-16). All that wonderful display of grace, and gentleness, and love, and power, had been unappreciated. What a tale it tells of the heart! He was a lonely Saviour, lonely and unappreciated save by this poor woman. Her heart had been drawn to Him before; she had sat at His feet and heard His word — there was much in that. She had known the tenderness of His heart, and His power in the case of her brother, how He could raise the putrid body to life again — resurrection life; and there He was before her in resurrection.
She was not intelligent, but she acted instinctively. Her heart entered into the path the Saviour was going to take. She gave her all, and another was prepared to sell Him. It is a terrible picture, a gross and shocking picture, of the depravity of the heart. Judas was so near the path, but he never was in it. It is shocking, but, beloved, do we never do the same in less measure when we give up Christ as the object of the soul for some lesser consideration? When a soul is struggling to give up the world the Lord has sympathy with it, but when it is seeking to have more of the world, there is no sympathy.
We often meditate over this scripture, but it always has something fresh for our souls, because it presents Christ to the heart. We may not be very intelligent, but it is the heart He wants. “Waste!” say the disciples, but He appreciates this. He says, “Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.”
ROCHFORT HUNT.