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Day by Day Devotional - Year 4 of 5
Devotional: May 14th

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Luke 7:36-50

Very different from the publican, Levi, in Luke 5:29, Simon the Pharisee also invited the Lord to dine at his house. Perhaps Simon expected to receive some recognition for his act, but instead the Lord is going to teach him a humiliating lesson. At this point a woman, well-known for her sinful life, comes into the house. She pours on the feet of the Lord Jesus the homage of her ointment and her abundant tears of repentance. It is not Simon the Pharisee, but this sinful woman who refreshes and restores the heart of the Saviour. For she is conscious of her great debt to God and she comes to the Lord Jesus in the only way appropriate: with a broken and contrite heart (Psalms 51:17). Before the Lord speaks that word of grace which the woman expects of Him, He has "somewhat to say" to Simon, whose secret thoughts the Lord knows all about. How often we could hear our names replacing Simon’s in that comment. "I have somewhat to say unto thee", the Lord says to this one or that one among us. "You perhaps can compare yourself very favourably with others who have not received the kind of Christian upbringing that you have, but what matters to me is your love for me and the evidence of that love."

May we realise more and more how much we have been forgiven and thus love our Saviour more!

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