"Therefore I say to you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much.
But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little." Luke 7:47
Here Jesus is, a guest in the house of a Pharisee and he has been welcomed, but only so much.
Here is this woman, so sinful that the whole of the city knows of her transgressions, yet she enters the house in order to serve Jesus.
It's a Sodom story.
People read the story of Sodom and come to the conclusion that it is a story about sex, or more specifically homosexual sex. It is not. It is a story about those who are unwelcoming of the stranger, by their lives and by their actions. [Ezekiel 16:49]
Here, again, we see the mighty doing a poor job of welcoming and we see the whore weep at Jesus' feet.
Jesus says that the person who has been forgiven more will show more love and that the person who has been forgiven little will love little. And so, Sodom loved little and was destroyed; the Pharisee loved little and was shown up by the sinner.
Be careful friend should you be the one who loves little, if you do, you may indeed be laid low by those you deemed unloveable.
+ Are you the pharisee, loving little? or the sinner, loving large?
+ Which do you act like in public?
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