When we are wronged or hurt or treated injuriously, if we would honour our blessed Lord we must endure with sweet forgiveness and patience. Love is always sweet, even when it meets only answering love; but it is never so sweet to Christ as when it meets unkindness, wrong, injustice, cruelty, and still remains gentle and tender, bathing in fragrance the hand that smites. To endure thus is to bring sweet spices for Jesus. The women brought spices to strew on the body of a dead Christ. We may bring love, devotion, service, submission, and endurance to honour a Christ who was dead for us but is now for us also alive for evermore.