LUKE 7:44-47
Then turning towards the woman, Jesus said to Simon, ‘Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave me no water for my feet, but she has bathed my feet with her tears and dried them with her hair. You gave me no kiss, but from the time I came in she has not stopped kissing my feet. You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment. Therefore, I tell you, her sins, which were many, have been forgiven; hence she has shown great love. But the one to whom little is forgiven, loves little.’
---- mine,
I see and take into account everything - every look, every thought, every gesture, every motive, and I see the love or lack thereof in the heart. Simon disrespected Me in every way that it is possible to disrespect a guest whom he invited into his home. He neglected to show me the barest courtesies offered to a guest. Whatever the motive for inviting me, the fact is that Simon was a hypocrite. The woman who entered his home was a public sinner and each of her actions made manifest publicly her sorrow for her sins. Unbeknownst to her, she also fulfilled every courtesy that the host had failed to do. She recognized Me as Lord and she worshipped Me holding nothing back. The pouring out of the ointment on My feet, washing them with her tears and drying them with her hair, with no thought of how it appeared to the others, she made atonement for all her sins loved. Her great sorrow for her sinful life was visible to all yet Simon, the Pharisee, that cold-hearted hypocrite, chose to judge her. I read his unworthy and uncharitable thoughts about the woman at My feet and revealed them to everyone around that table. Remember, ---- my own, every act of kindness, love, concern, sympathy, in thought, word, and deed, done or withheld to the least of My sisters and brothers, I consider done or neglected to be done to Me. The greater your love the greater the forgiveness of all your sins. Your faith saves you. Love saves you.
