Something beautiful, something good, sometimes I need a dose of that. How about you? All the great philosophers of history describe truth, goodness, and beauty as supreme values. Christopher Morley once said, “In every man’s heart, there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.” So, today I want to tell you a beautiful story. It’s in the Bible. To preach it would be to abuse it. So let me simply tell it as well as I can.

I. A Beautiful Act

“Now while Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very costly ointment, and she poured it on his head as he sat at the table” (Matthew 26:6).

At Bethany, a little village, about 2 miles out of Jerusalem, on the Road to Jericho, at the house of Simon the Leper; thousands of …