Work and Joy
Mark 14:8
She has done what she could: she is come beforehand to anoint my body to the burying.


A young girl, in one of her pensive moods, wrote thus in her journal: If I dared I would ask God why am I placed in this world? and what have I to do? My days are idly spent, and I do not even regret their swift passing away. If I might but do some good to myself or another, if only for the short space of a moment each day!" A few days later her views were wider and brighter, and she wrote again: "Why, nothing is easier! I have but to give a cup of cold water to one of Christ's little ones." Paths of service are sure to open before willing feet. When the Spirit of God puts a benevolent impulse in the soul the providence of God will open a channel for its outflowing. Thousands of God's afflicted children would be inexpressibly touched if Christian young women would sing to them of His love and the "home beyond the tide."

(Bishop J. C. Ryle.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.

WEB: She has done what she could. She has anointed my body beforehand for the burying.




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