Got a mail from an old friend. Was so happy to receive the mail from that good old friend, since we were not in touch for many years. Came to know that she will be getting married soon. Was so happy for her and with much effort collected her contact no: and we talked for such a long time. At last she wished me a very good luck for these (In her words) fantastic 'Utter wasteful' 3 years of mine in Rome.
Oh to be wasted ! Yes, as 'Watchman Nee' says, its a blessing to be wasted for the Lord.And I think many of us know nothing about this. We have been used to the full - may be too much- but we don't know, what it means to be wasted on God.
"Then Mary took about a pint of pure nard, an expensive perfume; she poured it in Jesus' feet and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume." Jn 12: 3
There must be something- a willingness to yield, a breaking and a pouring out of everything to him- which releases that fragrance of Him.This is the heart of everything. And this fragrance drags others to Him, which gives an awareness of him in others.
Even if we like to be always "on the go", he prefer to have us in prison.Even if we give ourselves to him, he puts us in chains, he makes us speechless, makes us fools in this world."who knows the mind of the Lord?", but the scripture also says ,
" what no one ever saw or heard, what no one ever thought could happen, is the very thing God prepared for those who love him."
"Thanks be to God , who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and through us spreads every where the fragrance of the knowledge of him" (2 Cor 2:14)
Lord I'm willing to let go all things for you. not just for your work, not for others, not for anything else at all, but all together for you and only for yourself ! And I know, Its blessed to be wasted for you !
"And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume."
