BREAKFAST WITH THE KING - Pour It On Him

I had an alabaster box, it contained some ointment, a very fragrant rare perfume. I have kept it for years, hoping that sometimes, I might find a good use for it. It was an ointment excellent fragrance. Very expensive. I knew it was meant for noble use. I attempted to pour it on myself, I felt it checking my heart. A restraint from an invisible hand, urging me to wait. Many have come to beg for this precious ointment I owned. You see my heart is very tender, I am philanthropic at heart. Yet I know from deep within that ointment was for service beyond the realm of my heart.

My most challenging time came when my own beloved brother became ill. We did all we could, but it only got worst. We spent all we had on medication and hospital bills. All, except my box of ointment. My sister urged me to sell the ointment to keep our brother alive. ''Don't let us watch him die, please do something'', she said, ''Even if he should eventually die, let's make the world know that we did all we could to keep him alive''. I know she was referring to my box of ointment. I loved my brother so much that I wanted him to live. But deep within my heart, I knew that there was higher purpose for this ointment. I was not prepared to pour it to service myself . In the same way, I refused to pour it on my family.

This caused a great misunderstanding. Folks called me names. It hurt. But I refused to yield. This ointment was for a service beyond my family.

I was consoled by a story I had heard of a prophet long ago, who died leaving a cruse of oil. I wondered while he did not sell or use it, despite the shadow of poverty in his house, perhaps the same invisible hand that constrains me now, cautioned him then; I was amazed when I realised that, that cruse of oil saved the day, when his family would have been sold to the yolk of slavery. The oil became a miracle seed that preserved a memorial for his name. So I refused to heed the "voice of reason" as they called it. I kept my ointment for the day when it will serve its higher purpose. (To be continued...)

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