Breaking Your Alabaster Flask

Worship. The alabaster flask or box. No way to extract the perfume from the flask if not by breaking it.

Matthew 26:6 And when Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, 7 a woman came to Him having an alabaster flask of very costly fragrant oil, and she poured it on His head as He sat at the table. 8 But when His disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste? 9 For this fragrant oil might have been sold for much and given to the poor.” 10 But when Jesus was aware of it, He said to them, “Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a good work for Me. 11 For you have the poor with you always, but Me you do not have always. 12 For in pouring this fragrant oil on My body, she did it for My burial. 13 Assuredly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told as a memorial to her.”Breaking the flask, the perfume bottle was the only way to release the contents. After she broke the flask, she worshiped him and anointed his head. The first part is coming to where he is. Second is what is in your hands, in her case she brought her life in a bottle. It's about being broken before him in total worship. Brokenness is a state or condition where we submit, our will, to His will without any resistance. No arguing, no fighting with him and no questioning his Holy Spirit. Allowing his will to be done, not our own. As humans with a sinful nature, we have been given a free will and through the influence of sin, we tend to resist anything but our own will. And when we come to him willing to give it all, we have to be broken and contrite, mold-able and willing to let him work in us. Our lives become a sacrifice of living worship towards our Lord and Savior, Jesus. Be broken and use your perfume to anoint the Master's head. Broken is how we can best worship him. What has broken meant, personally, in your life? What broke you? Let your voice be heard.