Sitting at the Table With Jesus.

In Sunday School yesterday I was teaching on Mathew 26. I was amazed to consider these two verses for a while:  Mat 26:6-7  Now when Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper,  (7)  a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he reclined at table.

I am just in awe of this sweet moment near the end of Jesus earthly ministry.  The thing that arrests me most is the guest list.  The event is being hosted in the home of Simon the Leper.  Because of the stringent rules placed upon a leper (isolated outside the city) it is highly unlikely that this Simon could own a home within the city of Bethany if he was still a leper.  He probably had been healed, and that likely by the other man sitting at the table- Jesus.  Also there was this woman, identified to us elsewhere in the gospels as Mary the sister of Lazarus.  You might know him as Lazarus the dead.  Was Lazarus there as well?  Or was it just his sister there to praise the one who had spoken life into the tomb of her brother? 

In our lesson we made it as far as the institution of the Lords Supper.  As we discussed the forward looking implications of that meal and the Lords return when we can share that meal with him once again, it hit me. One day Jason the Proud (among other things...many other things) will sit at the table and share a meal with the Lord.  Other guests may include Simon the Leper, Lazarus the Dead, A Gadarene demoniac whose name is thus far unknown to me.  We and many others will all sit around that table and recollect the majesty and glory of Jesus...who changed all that about us.  

Then let our worship fall out and be poured over Jesus head and let us wipe that ointment with our hair as it drips to his feet.  Jesus has done so much.  So much!