How Deep Is Your Love

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In Luke 7:36 you will find the story of a Pharisee asking Jesus to eat with him. They went together to the Pharisee’s house and sat down to eat. A woman from the city who was a sinner, heard that Jesus was there. She came to see Him and brought an alabaster flask of fragrant oil.

She sat at the feet of Jesus and began to wash His feet with her tears and dried them with her hair. She kissed His feet and anointed them with the fragrant oil.

The Pharisee was upset and told himself if Jesus was a prophet He would know who this woman was and know she was a sinner.

Jesus responded to the Pharisee and said, “Simon, I have something to say to you.”

The Pharisee listened as Jesus told him, “There was a certain creditor who had two debtors. One owed five hundred denarii and the other owed fifty. And when they had nothing with which to repay, he freely forgave them both. Tell Me, therefore, which of them will love him more?”

The Pharisee said it would be the one he forgave more.

Jesus then pointed out that he was correct, and that when Jesus had come into the Pharisee’s house, he gave Jesus no water to wash His feet, but she had washed His feet with her tears and dried them with the hair of her head. Simon gave Him no kiss, but she had not stopped kissing His feet. Neither did Simon anoint His head, but she anointed His feet with her fragrant oil.

He told him that her sins which were many were forgiven, and for that she loved Him very much. But, to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little.

Too often people who grew up in church and never fell into deep sin tend to look down on those who were lost in very sinful lives. They also might not love Him as deeply as those who were brought up out of the depth of sin.

The people who were rescued from drugs or prostitution, for example, are often the people who fall so deeply in love with Jesus they can’t stop praising Him. Many times they are the ones God can use the most to preach or witness. They become pastors, counselors, and prayer warriors because they know the tremendous change in their hearts and lives.

Those who never fell into that depth of sin sometimes don’t appreciate what they have because they haven’t experience as big a change in themselves.

What category do you fall into? Do you really understand what you have, or do you tend to think you are better than the “sinners” out in the world who Jesus has rescued?

Whether we had the privilege of growing up on a church bench, or were lifted up out of a horrible life, we need to truly understand that we are all alike. Every one of us is a sinner saved by grace. We cannot ever look down on others because “we have never done what they did. God never had to do as much for us as He had to do for them.”

The reality is He had to sacrifice the same blood and suffer the same pain for each person no matter what their circumstance. After all, sin is sin, and we are all born into it. We all have to come to Jesus and be saved.

If you have ever thought you weren’t that bad, you need to think again. When you truly understand that He had to do the same for each one of us, then maybe we will start to love him more.

Maybe we will start washing His feet with our tears, drying them with our hair, and anointing them with fragrant oil. After all, we all owe him that and much more.

Think about it.