"She Hath Done What She Could”

That is, we should do everything that we can to please Him in all situations.

In this scripture passage we see a woman who did just that.

The Bible refers to her as “…there came a woman…”

Let me show you how she pleased the Lord so that we can see how we can please the Lord also.

Look at Mark 14:1-9. We read, “After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people. And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head. And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made? For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her. And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me. For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always. SHE HATH DONE WHAT SHE COULD: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying. Verily I say unto you, 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.”

In this passage of scripture we see three kinds of people.

(1) Those who hated the Lord.

(2) Fault finders of those doing good.

(3) A Woman that loved the Lord and did good.

We still have these three kinds of people. I hope you fall under the category of the latter.

These six words in the life of this woman that loved the Lord tell us how we can FULFILL GOD’S PLAN FOR OUR LIFE … “SHE HATH DONE WHAT SHE COULD”

Let’s look at this woman who pleased the Lord.

Notice, she had something she could do for the Lord and…

I. SHE DID IT!

The difference between this woman and many christians today they also have many things they could do for the Lord but they refuse to DO IT!

But the Bible states this certain in the scriptures she had something she could do and SHE DID IT!

But for us who love the Lord there are so many things that need to be done for the Lord and we wish we could do them for Him!!!

Illus: For example, sometimes we hear:

? A great pianist play and we wish we could play like that for the Lord.

? Great singers sing and we wish we could sing like that for the Lord.

? Great teachers and preachers teach and preach and we wish we could teach and preach like that for the Lord.

But we all have to face reality. God has not gifted all of us with all of these talents we would like to use for the Lord.

We are told there are two kinds of skills:

1. NATURAL SKILL

There are some that have become GREAT at what they do because they have a NATURAL SKILL. They were born to do what they do.

Illus: Rush Limbaugh goes down in history as one of the great radio speakers. He would often say of himself…HE WAS DOING WHAT HE WAS BORN TO DO!!!

No doubt about it he had a natural skill for the job he had on radio.

Many of the successful people in life have become successful because they were born with a natural skill.

For example, some have a NATURAL SKILL when it comes to computers.

Illus: Dr. Odell Belger tells how he was having some problems with his computer and a preacher friend and a young Chinese student from USC were in his office.

The preacher friend who was very skillful with computers sat down at his desk and thought he could fix his computer problem for him. He tried several things and it did not correct the problem.

However, as this preacher friend tried to fix his computer the Chinese student standing behind him would not say anything but let out a few little grunts several times while the preacher friend was trying to correct the problem as if he was saying THAT WANT WORK!

So Dr. Belger asked the chines student, “That’s not right?” He still did not say anything but he set down before the computer and he began to type with such speed that words, paragraphs and codes were literally popping up on his computer monitor immediately. And when he got through it was fixed!!!