Sometime We Don't Make Any Sense to Them

Sometime We Don't Make Any Sense to Them

3 While he was in Bethany, reclining at the table in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the perfume on his head.

4 Some of those present were saying indignantly to one another, “Why this waste of perfume? 5 It could have been sold for more than a year’s wages[a] and the money given to the poor.” And they rebuked her harshly.

6 “Leave her alone,” said Jesus. “Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing to me.
Mark 14:3,4 & 6 NIV

A woman named Sue (that isn't her real name) came to me to vent her frustration about a family member. "My brother is crazy!" she said.
"What's wrong?"
"He has a great job, a wonderful wife and three kids. He is messing up his entire life."
"And how is he messing up his life?" I said.
"Doesn't he know we are in a recession? Doesn't he care about his family?"
"Yeah well you still haven't explained..." she cut me off and kept talking.
"You don't get a job like that and just walk away."

Now I am starting to think of all sorts of things... terrible things. This time I interrupted her and asked what he did to his family?
She said, "He quit his high paying job to take a job as a teacher at a Christian high school. It doesn't make sense that he would leave a great job to work at a Christian school."
I told her that, "Maybe he feels God spoke to him, told him to go to this new job. Maybe the other job was too stressful?"
"You're defending him? You people (Christians) don't make any sense. I can’t believe he walked away from all that money."

Sue is right. We believers are a different group of people indeed. Our life choices are tethered to the will of the Father, not the acquisition of money or possessions. We believers know that we were saved in order to bring the gospel of Jesus to someone else. That might involve giving up something to do Kingdom business. And that does not make sense to the outside. But it makes perfect sense to God; Because He orders the steps of those that belong to Him. And He always leads us on the path of His righteousness.