Message in a bottle

In John 12, Mary worships Jesus Christ with the anointing of His feet but you read in Matthew that she started with His HEAD as the King.

Jordan explains, "She’s demonstrating ‘worthy is the lamb’ kind of a thing. What’s going on in the Believers in the last hours of His life is their affection and love for Him at the same time you see that the hatred of His enemies has actually penetrated into the very circle of His apostles."

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John 12: 3-5 testifies, "Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
[4] Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him,
[5] Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?"

Jordan says, "Verse 5 tells you it was 300 pence. That’s about a year’s pay! You figure Mary has this box of ointment and this thing is a treasure to her. It’s something she’s gotten together, how I don’t know--an inheritance, earned it, gathered it, but this is not something that was just laying around the house. This was something that was valuable to her and it was worth a year’s pay. Now you think about do you just blow a year’s pay?!

"Spikenard is a spice used to embalm. In Mark 16 you’ll see the women came with it to anoint Christ’s body after His burial. Here Mary’s doing it before.

"She’s right there at His feet. That’s what you do when you prostrate at someone’s feet; you’re there to worship and she wiped His feet with her hair.

"Paul makes a fascinating comment about a woman’s hair in I Corinthians 11:15: ‘But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.’

"Obviously for her to wipe His head with her hair, she had long hair. She takes that which she glories in and lays that at the Lord’s feet. She takes this costly treasure; she’s making a sacrifice. She’s demonstrating how valuable Christ is.

"It’s a demonstration of devotion and affection and attachment and value. She treasures Him above her own glory. She treasures Him above all of the earthly things that you would treasure and she makes Him the most of everything.

"Those little details of devotion are noted in the Scripture. That’s an important thing to me. That thing back in Malachi 6 where He has that 'book of remembrance.' Psalms says He has the bottle for the tears of His saints.

"There’s no sacrifice you make, no devotion to Him, no just living for Him and nothing else that He doesn’t take notice of. Others may not; but the Lord does and He notes those things and He takes them into consideration."