Extravagent Love

Today has been a great day!! I was able to get a day off from camp and just enjoy rest and some Brooke and Jesus time :) Things have been so busy with the biggest camps of the summer here that I enjoyed every minute of this day to rest.
I pulled out some of my old journals this morning and was just looking at how much the Lord has taught me in the last year. There is nothing better than having a personal history with God and see how He has been so faithful. He has been faithful to every single one of His promises. He has taught me so much about my identity and with that this year has come so many dreams. Even this summer, i feel like my dreams are expanding and He is putting new passions in my heart.
Being the summer of "first love", i think "pure love" is what follows. The Lord keeps bringing me back to the story of Mary at Bethany in Matthew 26. She poured out her whole future and life on Jesus. Her alabaster box is believed to be her dowry for her husband. The idea was that the dowry was split 3 ways. one-third was given to the bride's father and then two-thirds were given to the husband and his father. It was PURE nard, which meant that it was not mixed with other things and not contaminated with anything else. Mary was an extravagent lover because she understood the value of pouring her life on Jesus. When she poured her jar of precious ointment on Jesus feet and hair, she was saying "Jesus, YOU are now my future". Jesus loved her worship so much that he scolded those who thought it was a waste and said, "Why do you bother this woman? She has done a noble (praiseworthy and beautiful) thing to Me." (vs. 10)
The Lord is asking me for that pure love to be poured out. With these dreams of being a wife, mother, ministry, amoung other things, the Lord simply wants me to say "No matter what lies ahead, the only thing i know is that Your'e my future. You're my dreams. You have my heart." I want to say Yes to Him and offer Him pure love, not mixed with anything else. I cannot save anything for myself and try to plan things on my own. When I live a life poured out, He then can take control and lead me. Our lives should be a pure fragrance that is relased in the atmosphere that changes things. When we encountered the love the Lord has for us, it makes us fall deeper in love with Him. "We love, because He first loved us."
There is no greater joy than wasting our life on Jesus. He wants a people who will love Him extravagently!! That is my prayer and my desire is to give Him pure love.
Psalm 24:3-4 "Who shall go up into the mountain of the Lord? or who shall stand in His Holy Place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not lifted himself up to falsehood or to what is false, nor sworn deceitfully."