Summer in the Scriptures Week 4

Everyone has a past.  Some of us have a worse past than others. I know that my life was an absolute wreck before I came to Christ and surrendered my life to Him. I was not clean; I was not worthy. I was a sinful wretch that God radically saved and transformed.

This week in Luke there is a passage that  completely overwhelmed me. In Luke chapter 7 there is a sinful woman that washes Jesus’ feet with her tears and then anoints His feet with perfume. The Pharisees are astounded that Jesus does not condemn this woman for the sinner that she is. Instead Jesus tells a story to show what is really happening. Two men had a debt. One had a small debt, and one had a large debt. The lender forgave them both. Which one loved him more? Peter says that the one with the larger debt obviously appreciates the forgiveness more.

Now I don’t think that Jesus is saying that someone that got saved as a child won’t love Him as much as a criminal getting saved having done all kinds of terrible things. The point is that this woman knew who she was in the presence of Jesus. We are all guilty of more debt that we can imagine. The question is do we see it? Or are we more like the Pharisees who saw only their “goodness?” God give grace to the humble, but He is opposed to the proud. Charles Spurgeon once said that the better we understand the greatness of our sin , the better we can understand the greatness of our Savior’s.