wild abandon...
'but she wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair...' Luke 7:44
A sinful woman, knew Jesus would be at one of the religious leaders house.
"I need to go there"... she must have thought.
What went through her mind when she thought about going to Jesus. How many times did she rethink her decision to go? What would the religious in-crowd think? Would she be allowed in?What would Jesus think? What did she know about him that made her show up? And the perfume - what did she plan to do with it? Was it a hard decision to decide to part with it?
She got to the place where he was eating ..."she stood behind him at his feet weeping.."
"She began to wet his feet with her tears. Then she wiped them with her hair, kissed them, and poured perfume on them."
It was simple:"her many sins have been forgiven - as her great love has shown."
Do you have these moments? And i think they are moments .... but moments that effect the day to day reality ...
posted by me @ 10:13 PM
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Self sensoring is something that we tend to have socialised into ourselves at a young age (at least in the country anyway). Reservedness is seen as a form of appropriateness - language and body language is seen as something that gives away the inner thought.
I am perhaps at my least self sensoring in worship (or in a bad way on a footy field when things aren't going my way). In worship I tend to find the ability to allow myself to exhale and then to take in the breath that awakes my soul - connecting the outer me with that which resides inside.
This has been one of the revelations of living in the city where I have met and engaged with people I would not have walked by in the country and "finding" a Church that God has used to show me another dimension of His nature.
I'm not an open book by a long shot and God continues to challenge me on this stuff - what is my unrestrained response to His love in my life.
Hello heloo! so true about self sensoring. As you say, an appropriate place for 'wild abandon' is the sporting field! i like what you said about worship and breath and awakening the soul.
I think I am 'in' those moments when it feels like God has given me a little revelation about something/someone. He showed me so clearly the other day a freind of mine's (nd yours!) faithfulness and it was like he gave me a 1 second glimpse of how he viwed this person, which gave me a bigger glimpse of Him and His Goodness and faithfulness. Does that make sense? what about you R?
Hey Rach!...; journeyme, well, i like this passage because it really reflects me in absolutely no way! it's a challenge to me. Freeing moments so far have been: being able to share the hardest, and most shamefull parts of my life with people in various situations; being able to worship and pray thing the way my heart feels - the joy and the despair ... but really i think this story resonates with me because it is what i would like to feel, and what i would like to do. For me the key lies somewhere in forgiveness. Still working it out. life in progress. i guess i naturally side with law over grace, but i know this is not the way it should be... Rhea
Do you know the most amazing thing - I think you are right, she must have had those thoughts and it must have been a hard and humiliating thing to do, but she had guts and did it, and her actions had consequences that reached far beyond her own salvation.
In washing Jesus' feet and wiping them with her hair, some say that she annointed Jesus for his mission of dying on the cross. So her actions have indirectly affected our salvation I guess!
Sometimes we get so caught up in how things will effect us, but forget that taking a bold step (even if it is embarassing or humiliating) could have huge impact on others (even if we don't realise it at the time!). I say this to myself as a challenge as much as I say it to everyone out there who knows the good that they should do....has guts...and does it!
hi em ... yes to freedom, and hi tam, wow ... yes.
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