| Worship is an amazing place to live in, it is a different | | | | stronger |
| world to the world we live in, it is because worship | | | | I take and say that our hearts are very expensive |
| allows us to get more and more like God when we | | | | even a heart transplant surgery is very expensive just |
| spend more time with him. It allows us to know God | | | | as our hearts are. They are also very delicate and we |
| more. So today the question that I pose is Worship | | | | treat our hearts with care and love, they are so |
| more like an alabaster flask or a rose, think about it! | | | | precious and an important part of life. |
| An alabaster flask is a clay jar that was used to carry | | | | Our hearts grow stronger and better with time if they |
| oil or perfume but this alabaster flask was crafted by | | | | are nicely taken care of.Then we come to the fact |
| the best craftsmen it was very expensive to buy and | | | | that a rose's scent grows stronger when a rose is |
| so they also started to carry expensive oil or perfume | | | | dried up and you can strongly smell the oil or perfume |
| in it. | | | | in an alabaster flask when you have broken the seal |
| A harlot in the bible came with this alabaster flask | | | | of the jar |
| before Jesus and poured it on Jesus feet and Judas | | | | Our hearts are just like that alabaster flask and that |
| was not impressed with it. There was only one way to | | | | rose and the same thing with our hearts we need to |
| open the alabaster flask it was by breaking the top or | | | | dry our hearts, die to ourselves, die daily, die to God |
| the lead and then it would be kept like that. This | | | | and also need to break the seal and the lid of our |
| alabaster flask was very expensive the bible records it | | | | hearts so that when we stand to worship our the |
| to be a year's earning that were used to buy a jar. | | | | scent of our brokenness and dried upness. Remember |
| A Rose is the most beautiful and scented flower on | | | | roses smell nicer and stronger when dried up, the only |
| earth. They smell nice when they are fresh but I know | | | | way to smell the strong perfume in an alabaster flask |
| that they smell way nicer and better when they are | | | | is by breaking the seal and the lid, so is it with our live. |
| dried. The dried rose petals are stronger in scent than | | | | Living the life of brokeness, living the life of being thirsty |
| fresh rose petals. | | | | and dry for God, is what make a worshipper weaker |
| So were am I going with this whole alabaster flask and | | | | or stronger or effective. Living a life where we are just |
| rose issue, as you been reading both are | | | | sold out for God alone and him alone. |
| very expensive | | | | Worship is that which overflows from a broken and a |
| very delicate - written handle with care | | | | contrite heart, that is indeed a life of an alabaster flask |
| scent gets stronger with time | | | | and a rose. |
| you have to break them for the scent to be | | | | |