Wednesday, March 25th | Daily Devotion
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“Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven — for she loved much. But he who is forgiven little, loves little. And he said to her, ‘Your sins are forgiven.’” –Luke 7:47-48
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Good morning. Grace and peace be unto all of you, my Father’s children on this incredible Wednesday.
We are in the middle of the week and the middle of our theme of forgiveness. The first part of this week we have focused on the call to forgive others — the godly obligation to extend grace because God has extended it to us. But today I want us to look at forgiveness from a different angle. Not as something we give, but as something that is connected to who we are — specifically, how deeply we love.
We go today to the Gospel of Luke, the seventh chapter, the 47th verse.
Jesus makes a direct and striking equation here: your capacity to forgive is tied to your capacity to love. The inverse is just as true — the person who is forgiven little, loves little. And that means no matter how much we feel we are demonstrating the love of Christ, if we are not forgiving people by nature, we are falling short of love itself. That is a hard word. But it is His word.
I encourage you to read the entirety of Luke 7, because this narrative is one of the threads that leads us directly to the cross in this Lenten season. What we find here is a woman — described as a woman of the city, which is simply the text’s way of saying a woman known for her sin. And here is what I want you to do when you read it: put your name there. Because you have faults. You have places and moments where you have shown a lack of discretion. You have some things you are glad your neighbor does not know about. She comes carrying all of that — and still she enters the home of a Pharisee where Jesus is reclining, and she worships Him. She washes His feet with her hair. She breaks open a precious bottle of ointment. Her love is extravagant, uninstructed, and completely genuine.
And it is that love — expressed without prompting, without anyone telling her to — that Jesus connects directly to her forgiveness.
So the question this passage puts before us is not only are you forgiving others — that is the conversation we have been having. Today the question goes deeper: what actions of love are you putting into the world that reflect your understanding of what Christ has done for you? This woman understood what worship looked like. She did not come with a theological argument. She came with her whole self, her most precious possession, and her tears. And that authenticity warranted something only God can give.
We are always going to be in a place where there is something God needs to forgive us for. That is the honest reality of being human. The question is whether the way we are living — the love we are expressing in our daily actions, in how we treat people, in how we worship, in what we are willing to pour out — is consistent with someone who truly understands the grace they have received.
Are you exemplifying the love of Christ in a way that reflects the forgiveness you are living under?
That is the conversation for this Wednesday morning. I pray it has been a blessing. I cannot wait to see you again tomorrow. God bless you — have an incredible day