Post-Tour Reflection: Pondering the Weeping Woman

We don’t want to let the event at Simon’s house soon escape us. The woman was called sinner (literally an ‘immoral’ woman'). We don’t know for sure, but it is entirely possible that Jesus had met her earlier and in their providential interaction had forgiven her sins. There is nothing in the text that demands Jesus forgave her at Simon’s house. She had come in to worship Jesus and because she knew she had been forgiven much, she was found weeping at His feet. A woman like her had come into the Pharisee’s home at great personal risk and great economic sacrifice, using expensive perfume to anoint her Lord. 

Here is the question for us. Do you and I weep at His feet like this? Certainly, I do not mean every moment, but when we contemplate what He has done for us, does it move us? Does it drive us to our knees in worship like this? If we ponder what Jesus said to Simon, then our love for Him and others will be proportional to how deep we think our hopelessness was before He pulled us out of the pit. If we think lightly of His forgiveness or if we think little of His love, then our response to Him will be characterized by a ho-hum, shallow, seemingly ungrateful attitude before our Great Savior. 

Oh, that He might impress our worldly-minded hearts with the depth of His sacrifice and love.

“He that hath slight thoughts of sin never had great thoughts of God.” - John Owens