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Day 3 | You Will Not Always Have Me
Mark 14:3-9 (ESV)
“I want to be where my grandson will be. Tell me what to do.”
This was the question that my grandmother dropped on my mom, two years before her passing away. My grandma had been a devout Buddhist until then, but in the two winters that followed she learned the Korean alphabet, read the Bible cover to cover, recited a hymnal cover to cover, and shared her newly discovered treasure with a dozen other grandmas in town. When she passed away, not only would she be with her grandson, but with her LORD–yes, her LORD, Jesus who died for her and rose and is with her “always, to the end of the age” (Matthew 28:20).

“But you will not always have me,” said Jesus. And the woman’s flask was broken, that day. The fragrance of confessing of sins, embracing of his salvation, weeping, comforting, caring for and loving one another–there is only one lifetime in all eternity to let this fragrance flow: yours. Your flask, your lifetime.

Seong Hyun Park, Ph.D.
Assistant Dean of the Boston Campus &
Assistant Professor of Old Testament