22 The involuntary meeting

 

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The involuntary meeting

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The boy's chapter is. Joh ev 8

In John 8:1-12 we meet a woman who was dragged before Jesus. She had been caught in the act of adultery. Now she was on public display of her sin. She had nothing to say. No excuses. No explanation. No one to blame the man she had been with.

She just stood there with everything that was hers. But she stayed with Jesus. Because when all the accusations were gone, because Jesus had exposed them with his words, she was left alone with Jesus. That is why she was also the only one who heard the words from Jesus: “Neither do I condemn you. Go, and sin no more.”

Jesus did not trivialize her action, because he knew that with the words “neither do I condemn you”, he had pronounced the death sentence on himself, because now he had to take the punishment for her sin, guilt and shame.

How about you. Do you condemn others when you know something about them that they may have once done? Do you not do as Jesus did, you have the right to judge when God wants to bless. This also applies to you who publicly name other churches and priests and say by name, read this and that church and person goes like that, they are not real Christians, you know, you are self-righteous.

Jesus did not let her sin have the last word. In the meeting between the sinner and Jesus, grace had the last word, and where grace has the last word, new life is created. “Go and sin no more from now on.”

What about me?
I easily get the thought that I must get my sexual sins under control before I can come to Jesus. But God and Jesus' encounter with sexual sinners shows us something quite different.

I must live in the light and confess my sexual sins, not because sin is unimportant, but because grace is greater than sin. Confession is not about coming forward with a nice and controlled story, but it is about coming forward with the truth. No sin is too dirty for his grace. No shame is too deep for his gaze. On the cross he bore it all. Therefore, I must also come forward with what I would most like to hide from God, from other people, and even from myself.

In the encounter with Jesus, grace is allowed to trump shame.

By God's grace I am what I am, remember that when you feel like accusing and condemning other believers in Jesus.

"If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin" (1 John 1:7).

“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9).
Amen