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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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