Jesus Anointed

In family devotions tonight we discussed the passage in Luke 7:36-50. This is a beautiful account of how a sinful woman anointed Jesus' feet with perfume, wet them with her tears, and dried them with her hair. The pharisee mentioned in this passage gives off a somewhat disgusted attitude at the woman's behavior, but Jesus goes on to give an example of two men who were in a considerable amount of debt. One man owed 500 denarii, and the other owed 50 denarii. Each denarii was worth a day's wages. So who was more grateful? Obviously the man who owed the most money. Jesus tells us that those who are forgiven much, love much. In order to love as we ought, we must first see our sin (or our debt) as we ought. This comes with a greater sense of reality in our own lives. The more the weight of our sins dawn on us, the more we learn to love the Savior who removed them all.