Alabaster Jar

Wow. Thought I'd never do something like this. Seems I am becoming more open minded to technology and who can be affected by it. Here is one of my favorite words for the day, alabaster, according to Merriams Websters Dictionary that means, a compact fine-textured usu. white and translucent gypsum often carved into objects (like vases0, and it also means a hard translucent calcite. Point being alabaster is pretty darn hard to break. A pretty popular bookstore carried alabaster paperweights and bookends at one time and they are just gorgeous but you can tell the quality of the product is that it is a very heavy type of substance, almost like glass, anyhow, I bring up this term because I want to reference some bible verses that have to deal with alabaster, which are the following, Matthew 26:7, There came unto Him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on His head, as he sat at meat. And Luke 7:37-38 And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisees house, brought an alabaster jar of ointment, and stood at His feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment. Now I do not know what the jar looked like, but I do know, that anythng put in an alabaster jar has got to be worth something. Some of the verses following this scripture in the book of Matthew indicate the worth of the ointment was alot. So this woman gave what was worth something. And I share this because lately, I believe that in my heart, God is wanting what is worth something, God wants us to break the alabaster jar of worship in our hearts which can be used to anoint the feet and head of Jesus our Lord. Its a very special thing to break out of the alabaster jars of our hearts and give to this man, the Son of God who was God. Do i always pour out whats in the Alabaster jar of my heart? No, sometimes pride can keep me from doing this, but in the bible verses following these verses I have written, you can see how people judged her for her act of worship. Am I supposed to just stand in Gods presence when I do desperately want to stop and give Him everything and demonstrate that through violent dance and worship?
Let me push my pride to the side. There have been times that I have been in certain church worship services and feel like I cant break free, I feel like I am the only one who wants to just jump up and down, and if I do, I have to be careful because someone may walk right in front of my and my arms will smack them in the face. I think people should allow people to just worship. Which brings me to my next topic. Who said anything about any type of order in church services , such as worship, prayer and then a sermon. Church was not created as a form of entertainment and is not meant to be impersonal and something that we just fit into our schedule. It is a bold gathering of putting Jesus first and coming together for His purpose. But today, we taylor church services to our personal schedules. My personal belief is that we should always put God first and our agendas second. Gods agenda comes first. Can we just lay it aside and trust and follow Him? Did the disciples even really have a choice when they left everything and followed Him? For such a great task. I say this because I personally am working on that in my life.