Where Is The Love?

When Jesus taught on love He said "Therefore I say to you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little."

Where was Jesus when He taught this...who was He speaking to?

He was at a dinner party, where He was being snubbed...and He was talking to leaders of the religious community of His day...people that other people looked up to as moral, ethical...good folk.

Jesus isn't saying that we can muster up enough love to earn God's forgiveness...please don't try and read this into His words.

Instead, what Jesus is teaching is this...the better, more clear grasp you have on how great your sin is...and how great the payment was for your sins to be forgiven...will directly effect the "amount" of love you have towards Jesus.

If you view yourself as a pretty good person, a man or woman whom God would be lucky to have on His team, a person who really doesn't have too many sins, a person who has a pretty good moral resume...then you will not have a deep, consuming love and passion for Jesus...because you have reserved this love and passion for someone you deem as equal or better than Jesus...yourself.

But...if you...like the sinful woman [possibly a prostitute] in this story, see your sins as something horrible...a debt that you could never even begin to imagine how you could pay it off...if you see yourself as a rebel against God, one who has nothing to offer God...then forgiveness becomes precious...and the One who brings that forgiveness...becomes the Greatest Treasure...

How do you view your sins? How do you view God? What is your understanding of forgiveness...what did it take for God to forgive you?

Over the next few posts I will spend some time looking at these very important questions...if there is anyone who reads these...may they encourage you...if no one reads these...may they encourage my heart to love You more and more Jesus!