Leave it all behind #livefreeThursday 

Coming Alive
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It’s live  free thursday.  Joining the delightful Suzie Eller at her place  talking about Leaving it all behind today.  You are going to want to click here http://www.tsuzanneeller.com and read her  post.. it’s AWESOME.

So today I am finishing up reading through the book of Matthew with my church and came to Matthew 26:6 when Jesus was annointed at Bethany.

And it brought to mind a memory.  Once I was getting ready to go spend a summer on a mission trip  and a friend of mine asked if I would come over because she wanted to annoint me  for the trip.

They annointed people in the Bible all the time with oil, so it sounded great to me.  I  was a little more intrigued to say the least when she asked me to bring my bathing suit.  

Lol.. this lady was serious about making sure I was annointed .   When I got there she surprised me by asking me  if I would step in the bathtub  in my bathing suit, and she poured two bottles of oil over my head.

Whew– I must have needed lots of  prayer and setting apart.

I still giggle thinking about it.  But it makes me think of when Jesus was annointed.   This woman brought her alabaster flask of very expensive ointment and poured it on Jesus head.  
She didn’t care what the people there would think.
She didn’t care that she was “wasting” her expensive perfume.
She didn’t care the response.

She wanted to pour her affection, her devotion, her hopes, her plans, her dreams– on the feet of Jesus.
She left it all behind.

I want to leave it all behind  at the feet of Jesus.
My devotion, my hopes, my plans, my dreams, my not worrying about what others think.

At the feet of Jesus.
Broken and beautiful.

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  1. “people look at the outward appearance but the Lord looks at the heart” this verse was directly below your post this morning on Proverbs 31. What an appropriate companion to your post. I am trying my hardest to grow as a Christian and not worry about what others think. Thank you for this Jenn!

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  2. I like how you included the good with the not so good that would leave at Jesus’ feet. Even those things that are FOR Him need to be surrendered to Him or they become more about me than Him! Thanks for the reminder 🙂 Have a blessed day.

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  4. Wow! What a wonderful memory and experience. This is just something you do not forget. As “weird” as this experience may have been for you at the time, it sounds like this friend of yours was just trying to be more like Jesus. 🙂 I try to do that every day…although I’m not always successful.

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