God salvaged this woman not just before she
died, but first of all He rescued her soul. This is a testimony of love -- God
to man.
The number of times man meets with God in
frank truth, is the number of times He touches his soul, and that is the number
of times man changes his life.
Also, since the meeting of this woman with Christ
she was faithful to Christ until His death.
Once again we see that we have a chance to do
the same. We must recognize our sins and in humility, ask for forgiveness.
Through the spiritual transformation within
us, we begin to understand --that since everyone of us are sinners, we must not
"contempt" others and throw stones of condemnation.
Those who today bring to Jesus Christ the
sinful woman, have forgotten about their sins--and until Christ shows them
their sins they do not leave this place of judgement.
Everybody needs the mercy of God and this
links everyone. When I experience the God of mercy, I see in others the same
sinfulness as in me.
John Paul ll wrote-- "sin in the
contemporary world is the lack of the sense of sin. When you discover
"sense of sin", you discover "sense of God"."
Without faith and love of God we will never be
sensitive to sin. It will be difficult
for us to see God when many of our sins we consider just weaknesses and
very easily we give excuses. Without reference in our life to God - we will not
be able to judge what is good and what is bad.
John Paul ll says "the final business of
our life will not be God but our summary benefit."
New life is contained in these same
words--"go your way and from now on do not sin again".
We hear the same words as for the sinful
woman, and if we want this same new life -- it
has been prepared for us.
Fr. Thomas
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