Holy Spirit life Vs Natural life - can you see the contrast?

Any who have gazed or been heartened by the warmth of peace that flows via Holy Spirit life will no doubt sit amazed at spirit life’s dichotomy to normal life.

Spirit life is usually the opposite to our default, it is the enigma to our control, it is the frustration fear and terror to any way of life we have known. Natural persons crave it, the rich play with it, the poor reflect on it. All touch it some become it.

Holy Spirit life is the most peaceful and beautiful state of being that any can glimpse into or glance off. In glancing off so many strive to add it to the comfort or control of what they have attained. Perhaps to bring understanding to this we see verse and passages in the bible that are beyond our capability to grasp and one such passage is in the beginning of John 12.

[Jhn 12:1-5 NIV] 1 Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. 2 Here a dinner was given in Jesus' honor. Martha served, while Lazarus was among those reclining at the table with him. 3 Then Mary took about a pint of pure nard, an expensive perfume; she poured it on Jesus' feet and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. 4 But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was later to betray him, objected, 5 "Why wasn't this perfume sold and the money given to the poor? It was worth a year's wages."

A few parts to note.

1. Worth a year’s wages
2. Poured on feet.
3. Wiped with hair.

We can see a beautiful picture of a prelude to Holy Spirit life and do well to note Mary poured out perfume worth a year’s wages. So let’s say it this way. Mary poured a bottle of rare perfume worth a minimum of $60k in our world on the feet of a man. Then to add natural stupidity to it she wiped His feet with her hair. Feet that walked dusty street. The religious want to get all fluffy about this passage and say it’s because it was Jesus. Realistically what a beautiful demonstration of Holy Spirit life a life that is no respecter of persons.

In spirit life there is no value, there is no concern for today or tomorrow there is only peace and that peace is not derived from financial security (if there is such a thing). But we can see the two paths of life so simply in this passage. Judas who took the natural way saw the needs, saw the value and failed to see the life. To him as to all natural or religious they see money and value of the temporal.  

Spirit does not see or has no value in anything of this world. It lives a quality of life not comprehendible to a Judas. To Judas he was lost in the temporal. Mary was living the eternal of her gift and what flowed from her spirit. An interesting side note. Judas, like most today strived for things. He was the one who kept the money for Jesus and ultimately sold Jesus for 30 pieces of silver. Yet here he was envious of the waste. Yet a simple humble spirited woman, one the world would call simple or silly had a crazy expensive perfume and she tipped it out. Amazing to me! And a beautiful expression of spirit life.

Yes she was appreciative of Jesus but if you want to take that line Mary would have been better selling the perfume with Judas and ministering to the needs of Jesus financially. After all Jesus was homeless and needed woman to take care of Him. Jesus lived beyond the chains of the temporal and beckons for us to have the same pleasure.

Funny thing I see myself in Judas more than Mary. My brain would fight my spirit on this one. I would like to waste $60k on the feet of someone I love. But realistically my natural would be to sell the fragrance and take them to lunch. Maybe pay a few of their bills, you know something that would make me feel like I was a good guy in Spirit. I would wrestle with the humbleness to clean feet with my hair. Yes I could possibly talk my religious old part into this scenario but when I have to think about it all it would reveal is I don’t get it. In reality Mary was lost in something I see and are aware of, it is life, true spirit abandoned life. A romantic flow of energy and creativity that is never ending, limitless, full of ingenuity, originality and passion. The purity of who a Spirit person is can be no less that amazing. No care for anything, not by conscious choice but by abandonment to their co-joined gift.