Worship! Is It An Alabaster Flask or An Rose

Worship is an amazing place to live in it is a different world to the world we live in, it is because worship allows us to get more and more like God when we spend more time with him. It allows us to know God more. So today the question that I pose is Worship more like an alabaster flask or a rose think about it!

An alabaster flask is a clay jar that was used to carry oil or perfume but this alabaster flask was crafted by the best craftsmen it was very expensive to buy and so they also started to carry expensive oil or perfume in it.

A harlot in the bible came with this alabaster flask before Jesus and poured it on Jesus feet and Judas was not impressed with it. There was only one way to open the alabaster flask it was by breaking the top or the lead and then it would be kept like that. This alabaster flask was very expensive the bible records it to be a year’s earning that were used to buy a jar.

A Rose is the most beautiful and scented flower on earth. They smell nice when they are fresh but I know that they smell way nicer and better when they are dried. The dried rose petals are stronger in scent than fresh rose petals.

So were am I going with this whole alabaster flask and rose issue, as you been reading both are

·         very expensive

·         very delicate – written handle with care

·         scent gets stronger with time

·         you have to break them for the scent to be stronger 

I take and say that our hearts are very expensive even a heart transplant surgery is very expensive just as our hearts are. They are also very delicate and we treat our hearts with care and love, they are so precious and an important part of life.

Our hearts grow stronger and better with time if they are nicely taken care of .Then we come to the fact that a rose’s scent grows stronger when a rose is dried up and you can strongly smell the oil or perfume in an alabaster flask when you have broken the seal of the jar

Our hearts are just like that alabaster flask and that rose and the same thing with our hearts we need to dry our hearts, die to ourselves, die daily, die to God and also need to break the seal and the lid of our hearts so that when we stand to worship our the scent of our brokenness and dried up ness. Remember  roses smell nicer and stronger when dried up the only way to smell the strong perfume in an alabaster flask is by breaking the seal and the lid, so is it with our live

Living the life of brokenness, living the life of being thirsty and dry for God, is what make a worshipper weaker or stronger or effective. Living a life where we are just sold out for God alone and him alone.

Worship is that overflows from a broken and a contrite heart, that is indeed a life of an alabaster flask and a rose.

Worship Him in the Beauty of His Holiness