Love Machine

Is love like a virus...you either catch a really powerful one...or a weak one.

One person's love for Jesus is deep, life changing...another's is...well like lip stick...very glossy, sometimes colorful and rests nicely on a person's lips...but goes no further.

Jesus tells us that love can grow!

Jesus was invited to a dinner party...the Host was a religious man. At the party Jesus didn't feel a loving welcome. His host had him into his house...but then kept him at arms length...treating him like a stranger...a party crasher!

Speaking of party crashers...this story has one. We are told that a sinful woman from the city crashes the party...she must have heard that Jesus was there...and had to see Him!

She falls at Jesus feet, and totally pours herself upon Jesus' mercy and grace. The woman pours expensive ointment on Jesus feet and cleans His feet with her hair, she even kisses His feet in adoration...almost totally undone...because of the love and gratitude that she had for the Savior!

Jesus looks at the the cold, aloof treatment he received from his dinner party Host...and then compares it to the love of this "sinful" woman...and tells a story.

He tells of two debtors...one owed a couple months worth of wages...the other one a couple years worth of wages...their Creditor forgives them both their debt...

Then Jesus asks the "religious" dinner host. Who do you think will love the Creditor most?

The religious dude busts himself by his own answer.

He responds...I suppose the one who was forgiven more...

Jesus then proclaims that the one who is forgiven much...LOVES MUCH...and the one who is forgiven little...LOVES LITTLE...

...next time we will look into what Jesus means by this answer!