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Women seem to have a special gift for worship
and praise. The same passion and emotional sensitivity
that can sometimes get us going in the wrong direction
– seems to inspire the kind worship that
ministers right to the Master’s heart. A
big part of our worship should develop out of
our realization of what Jesus has done for each
one of us:
He
saved me – and I will live eternally with
God.
He died an agonizing death for me.
He has forgiven all of the enumerable wrong things
that I have done.
I was so very lost and now I’m found.
I’m nobody, but He considers me to be special.
He didn’t have to do it.
When
I read the description of the woman in Luke chapter
7, who washed the Master’s feet with her
tears and anointed them with costly oil out of
the alabaster box, I can just imagine what she
must have been thinking and feeling. She was probably
overwhelmed just to be in His presence and because
He accepted her worship: the washing of His feet
with her tears even though He knew what kind of
woman she was.
I’m
sure she was probably crying because she was remembering
all or the things she had done in her life –
that she wished she could take back. Somewhere
in her spirit she knows that this Jesus, this
miracle worker that has healed multitudes can
see right through her…there is nothing hidden
from Him. Even through she is standing behind
Him that doesn’t matter He knows her. She
doesn’t have to speak – He already
understands and when He says “Thy sins are
forgiven” - she realizes that she has been
given a priceless gift so much more costly than
the oil she has just used to anoint Jesus’
feet. Her life will never be the same.
As
women we should all be able to relate not only
with her tears but with her joy at knowing that
“our sins are forgiven.” As you each
take time for personal devotions this week, also
take time to worship the Savior who has blessed
you with His amazing grace:
Amazing
grace! How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found;
Was blind, but now I see.
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