Luke 7:36-39: And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee’s house, and sat down to meat. And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash 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 when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spake within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him: for she is a sinner.
Jesus had been invited to dinner at the home of a certain Pharisee named Simon. When Jesus arrived, He was not made to feel welcome. He had not been kissed, and His feet were not washed and anointed. As He sat and ate by Himself, a prostitute, knowing that Jesus was at the house, managed to enter and knelt at His feet. She then proceeded to wash Jesus’ feet with her tears and to wipe His feet with her long hair, after which she anointed His feet with the ointment from an alabaster box she had brought along. When Simon saw what the woman was doing, he began to criticize Jesus in his heart. But Jesus, knowing what Simon was thinking, spoke up for the woman and forgave her sin.
Jesus was the promised Word made flesh, yet He was despised and rejected by the theologians. All the other rabbis in Simon’s house had been kissed, washed, and anointed, and were now busy flattering one another and exalting themselves. But when the woman came into Simon’s house and saw Jesus all by Himself with dirty feet, she realized that the Word needed to be anointed.
The woman came to Jesus with an expensive alabaster box of ointment. She had spent all her money from prostitution to buy it. But she didn’t care about that. She took the ointment out of the box and started to anoint His feet. Her faith was not at all bothered by the surrounding criticism, for she had come with a determination to go into the Lord’s presence and anoint the Word for the hour.
Jesus sat in silence as the woman anointed Him. He was not wanting some halfway anointing, but was watching to see the woman give her all to Him. Only after she had done all did Jesus break His silence and spoke up for the woman, granting her a total deliverance that shut the critics mouths.
All these years, the Word has been sitting silently in our midst with dirty feet from all the criticisms and neglect. But there is an elected woman (the Bride) who can recognize the despised and rejected Word, and is willing to sell out completely in order to anoint the Word for the hour. We are to give our all, anointing every divine promise in the scriptures that pertains to us, and not cease to anoint until the Word starts to speak back.
God will not settle for some halfway anointing. He wants for the Word to be properly anointed. We are no longer in the time of the feet, but are now in the time of the head. The Headship, the Capstone, has come down upon the body. The full Word is back in our midst, and is to be anointed completely. Only then will It speak, to vindicate, deliver, and set free those who love Him.