Christ forgives the humble

The woman who came to Jesus showed incredible courage and humility. She endured the condemning stares and murmurs of the dinner guests while she washed Christ’s feet with her tears, dried them with her hair and then continued to kiss them in gratitude. She believed Jesus was both human and divine, sent to earth to rescue her from the mess she had made of her relationship with God and her life. There was no way she could pretend or cover up what she had done and who she had become. She came as she was with all her shame and guilt. However, when she left she was forgiven, made whole, made clean, and set free. She left a new person with a new life, a new hope and a renewed faith in God.

As a Pastor I meet a lot of people who don’t realise who God is really like. A lot of people think of him as being like the religious leaders who looked down on the woman, who condemned her in their minds. But God isn’t like that, he sent Jesus to do exactly what we see him doing for the immoral woman, setting her free of judgement, of guilt and of shame.

I’d like to encourage you to discover God afresh. Find a Bible or go online, look up the Gospel of Luke 7:36-50 and read about one woman’s encounter with God.

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the Rev (Chris Perona)

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