Hearts Ablaze Corner

Text: LUKE 7:36-50 What an example we have in this woman of true worship and entering into the fellowship of Jesus' sufferings. Simon and friends were intent on humiliating Jesus, but this worshipper shows up and destroys their plans with her radical, undignified, unashamed worship of the Lover of Her Soul.  Her worship was a costly offering. She offered herself. She was not afraid of the faces of the Pharisees, she was not put off by their disdain or their anger that she had turned their plot upside down. With her sacrificial offering, she entered into Jesus' pain of rejection and public humiliation. This one woman, this true worshipper frustrated the plan of the Pharisees. Their plan backfired! Instead of public humiliation, Jesus received special honors, flowing from her heart! This is true worship. It says, "I'm all in." It reverses situations. It destroys the work of the enemy. Fear and intimidation cannot shut it down. It begins with really beholding Jesus. This woman did! I wonder, if I were that woman