Truth For Believers Volume 1

"Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her." (Mark 14:9)
Have any of you, beloved in the Lord, been led to ask the reason of this word of the Lord; and to inquire into the connection between this woman's act and the preaching of the gospel throughout the world? I think we see this very clearly when we remember God's ultimate aim in causing the testimony of His grace to be rendered to us. We know the immediate result, for the conscience that has been awakened to the sense of its need; the cross of Christ is presented to it, where the righteousness of God has rested in the judgment due to sin, and "we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." (Rom. 5:1) Much indeed remains still to be told of present access to and standing in the divine favour; of the joy of hope that looks out from this standpoint and fastens itself on the glory of God, ere we turn to our path of trial in the world; of joy in the very trials, too, because of the rich experience learned of God in them; Himself — the climax of our joy. (Ver. 11) There is in the gospel what we have been saved from, but there is also what we have been saved into, even till our hearts find their home in the Father's house, "accepted in the beloved." A divine mystery of love, too, has still to be disclosed to us there. There are counsels of God for the glory and joy of Christ, eternal counsels hid from all other ages, but now made known to us, in which we, too, have our part and interest, as given with all that are Christ's to Him, to be His church, His body, His bride.