READ: Mark 14:3-9
«…but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.» - 1 Samuel 2:30

I once visited a retreat center which had the names of different people who had contributed to that retreat center. On one of the doors I saw the name of a woman who had contributed to the building of that room with the inscription «She has done what she could». I was touched by this statement - «She has done what she could!» There are people who cannot do much. But they do what they can.

Perhaps you do not have the anointing or the gifts to minister to thousands. Perhaps you do not have the gift of healing. Perhaps your life is so messed up that you may never qualify for a pulpit ministry. Perhaps all you can do is to honour the anointed. Please do it. You will be memorialized for honoring the anointed!

Jesus commented on the wisdom and the foresight of this woman. Jesus commented that this woman, moving by the Spirit, actually anointed Him for His burial. Honoring the anointing is a good work. It is something that is recommended by Jesus. It is not at all a sign of luxury, opulence or extravagance. Our Savior does not reject the honoring of the anointing with expensive things. Indeed, she is the only person in the Bible of whom it is prophesied that wherever the gospel is preached she will be remembered. Is it not a fulfilment of the Scripture, “He who honors me I will honour and he who despises me I will despise”?