Title If You Love... (Luke 7:36)
If you love...
Luke 7:36-50
Love has power. Love is the heart that wants to abandon me and save him. However, not everyone can love unconditionally. Most people try to give me a love that is beneficial to me, and only the love I want. On the other hand, they yearn for love, but are not used to giving. If you put all these things together, you can see that there are three types of love in the end.
First of all. This can be called conditional love. It is a give-and-take type of love that says, “If you do this, I will love you.”
The second is. You could call it situational love: “I love you because you do this to me” or “I love you because you are beautiful now.” Then later, if you lose your beauty when you get old, you may not love it. In other words, it is a love method that is nothing more than a temporary way to love according to the value of the other person.
And the last one is. It is love that I give even though the other person may think that I am not worthy of my love. It doesn't matter what his condition is or what his situation is. Even if he doesn't accept me, I love him. No, to put it more positively, even if he hates me and tries to stay away from me, even if he says he hates me, I love him without regret. Another look from my point of view. I don't know if I'm worthy of love. He is a noble being that a person like me cannot look up to with respect, and I am not confident that I can love him by his qualifications. Nevertheless, I just want to give my all. This is the love method of those who know the secret that it is happier to love than to be loved. A man named [Gal Braid] said, “It is human to love to be loved, but angels to love in order to love.” . It shows how beautiful your love is.
In today's text, there is a woman whose life has been changed because of this love. She was a sinful woman. She was a woman who didn't even have the courage to even dare to love. However, he discovers true love for the first time in his life. You will feel love on a completely different level from the superficial, physical, and hedonistic love you have ever known. It was an unspeakable love that would bring a fresh shock to his destroyed and exhausted soul. Driven by that love, he dedicates the most precious thing in his life. The content of today's text is a beautiful story of a devoted love that pours out the same value as the life that he has accumulated for the rest of his life, and that love changes him and leads him to a new life. The famous theologian [William Barclay] praised [who] writing this article for a vivid and realistic depiction that might have been an artist.
Guys, if you love us too, something must happen. When the decisive actions to show the love to the place of love occur, it is often a much more beautiful love. At least, if we see the woman in today's text loves, we must have that love today.
are you in love Then, what must happen to you in order for that love to become a beautiful love?
Another thing, if you love Jesus, you must have a heart to give freely. To the one you love, you have a desire to give everything. The more I really need it, the more I want to give it with the thought that he will need it. Today this woman cried so much that she washed her feet with her tears. It was very disrespectful to appear in front of people with untied hair from Jewish women at that time. Nevertheless, the fact that she wiped the feet of the Lord with her loose hair meant that this woman loved Jesus and did not care about other people's eyes, and she had no face.
Jesus once told a parable about this heart that can happen if we love. There is a place that is so famous that we pass without being aware of it, and that part is the beauty of the parable. The father in the parable stands waiting for his son to return from a foreign country, and when he sees his son returning, he runs away and hugs him. However, in Palestine, it is extremely rare for an adult to run. It was unimaginable for a male adult Jew to show his ankles or soles of his feet. Showing the soles of the feet was considered an insult to those around them. Even today, Orthodox Jews say that when someone sits with their legs crossed, they consider it an insult and leave the place. Therefore, Jesus' parable of the father recognizing his son and running to meet him is describing a loving father who will not only give up his face for the sake of his beloved son, but will even point fingers at others.
Dear saints!
Do you really love the Lord? If we love, there must be a dynamic force that needs to arise in us today too. There has to be a struggle to get closer, and there has to be a desire to generously donate my essence. Don't always live like a fringe life, and if you love the Lord, look at this woman today.