(An excerpt from Pastor’s Book, “How to Make Your Life Count for God”)
Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.- C.T. Studd
I do not even remember the first time I heard that line, but through the years this quote has been a reoccurring theme in my life. You get involved in a lot of little stuff that you think is so important but one day your life will all be over and they will be having your funeral service. It will happen to all of us if Jesus tarries. That is why I want to make my life count for God.
If the Word of God says something one time it is important. I noticed that all four Gospels tell the story of a woman who poured expensive ointment on Jesus. The account in Matthew 26:6 – 13 says it this way: “Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat. But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste? For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor. When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me. For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always. For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial. Verily I say unto you, 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.”