“Your Faith Has Saved You, Go in Peace”

Awhile back the angels suggested I dedicate Sundays to the Gospels. Here is the Gospel of Luke 7:36-8:3. 

A Pharisee invited Jesus to dine with him,
and he entered the Pharisee’s house and reclined at table.
Now there was a sinful woman in the city
who learned that he was at table in the house of the Pharisee.
Bringing an alabaster flask of ointment,
she stood behind him at his feet weeping
and began to bathe his feet with her tears.
Then she wiped them with her hair,
kissed them, and anointed them with the ointment.
When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this he said to himself,
“If this man were a prophet,
he would know who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him,
that she is a sinner.”
Jesus said to him in reply,
“Simon, I have something to say to you.”
“Tell me, teacher,” he said.
“Two people were in debt to a certain creditor;
one owed five hundred days’ wages and the other owed fifty.
Since they were unable to repay the debt, he forgave it for both.
Which of them will love him more?”
Simon said in reply,
“The one, I suppose, whose larger debt was forgiven.”
He said to him, “You have judged rightly.”

Then he turned to the woman and said to Simon,
“Do you see this woman?
When I entered your house, you did not give me water for my feet,
but she has bathed them with her tears
and wiped them with her hair.
You did not give me a kiss,
but she has not ceased kissing my feet since the time I entered.
You did not anoint my head with oil,
but she anointed my feet with ointment.
So I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven
because she has shown great love.
But the one to whom little is forgiven, loves little.”
He said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”
The others at table said to themselves,
“Who is this who even forgives sins?”
But he said to the woman,
“Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”

Afterward he journeyed from one town and village to another,
preaching and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God.
Accompanying him were the Twelve
and some women who had been cured of evil spirits and infirmities,
Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out,
Joanna, the wife of Herod’s steward Chuza,
Susanna, and many others who provided for them
out of their resources.

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God is very merciful and forgiving and sees us for our goodness. At the time this was written, women were not allowed to approach Rabbi’s and talk to them. The woman, finding out that Jesus was at table nearby, guided by the Holy Spirit in faith, approached Jesus in tears and wept over his feet, bathing them with her tears, wiping his feet with her hair and anointed his feet with oil. Jesus credits this to her as an act of faith and great love- forgives her sin and informs her to go in peace. 

Great love covers a multitude of sin, and Jesus does not judge her as the Pharisee does, rather chooses to guide the Pharisee in teaching of God’s goodness and mercy. Jesus sees the goodness in her heart and forgives her on his own authority.

God truly loves each of us equally, from priest to sinner- God is truly the only one who is Good. Through Jesus, we can all approach God in faith, asking for His eternal and omnipotent Mercy and Divine Love. 

In Jesus’ name – Angel Inspired