![]() These are all sound answers, especially since you cannot put a price tag on most of them. Perhaps certain friendships, memories, or healthy routines and habits are in there too. If you are a wife, mother, or working professional, you may include your spouse, child(ren), or your career in your jar. What each of us considers precious may widely vary. This topic is a result of my own convictions, and the questions that I am posing are ones that I have been wrestling with and continue to wrestle with. ![]() What am I holding onto that God may be asking me to release to Him? What do I need to let go of and fully surrender to Jesus?īefore I continue, I want to make this disclaimer: anything that is written in this article is as much directed at me as it is to the reader. This forced me to seriously pause and ask myself: How are you actually living out the messages and images you have chosen to brand on your body?” “It’s not enough to just keep putting pretty tattoos on your body to show how pious you are. Shortly after getting my newest piece, I felt a strong conviction from the Lord: I intentionally placed it on my inner right forearm, with the fractured jar and spilled puddle pointing downward toward my wrist and hand to symbolize the costly, precious ointment poured out as an offering. ![]() My most recent one from August 2021 ( pictured ) is a broken alabaster jar. I have several almost all of them are Scripture-based, and most are results of careful, thoughtful planning and consideration. to unpack.īut for the sake of this article, I want to focus on one thing: the sacrificial offering she made by pouring out the ( most likely very valuable ) contents of the alabaster jar. I could go on several rabbit trails and seriously geek out on dissecting this passage: the significance of wetting His feet with her tears and wiping them with her hair, kissing them and anointing them with oil…SO. “ And behold, a woman of the city, who was a sinner, when she learned that he was reclining at table in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster flask of ointment, and standing behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment.” ( Luke 7:37-38, ESV ) Specifically called out as a “sinner,” the woman displays a beautiful act of reverence and repentance when she enters the house: Luke 7 tells the story of a woman who learns that Jesus is eating at the home of a Pharisee. The symbolism and significance of an alabaster jar is beautiful to me.
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