Luke 7-8

We take today's reading lesson from the attitude of Simon the Pharisee who invited Jesus into his home. On the surface, it is difficult to miss the lesson here but Simon gets a once in a lifetime opportunity to have the saviour of the whole world in his home and what he cared about was a sinner touching the feet of Jesus and whether Jesus himself was really a prophet, because if he was, he would not have allowed it. "One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to have dinner with him, so Jesus went to his home and sat down to eat. When a certain immoral woman from that city heard he was eating there, she brought a beautiful alabaster jar filled with expensive perfume. Then she knelt behind him at his feet, weeping. Her tears fell on his feet, and she wiped them off with her hair. Then she kept kissing his feet and putting perfume on them. When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know what kind of woman is touching him. She’s a sinner!” Luke 7:36‭-‬39 NLT. When we pay attention to the ongoing in other people's life, we will fail to pay attention to Jesus. Simon was so wrapped up in how sinful this woman was that he failed to realise he was a sinner himself or that even though food was served, he had not shown Jesus the usual courtesy of washing hands and even tradition of greeting and welcoming a guest into the home. "Then he turned to the woman and said to Simon, “Look at this woman kneeling here. When I entered your home, you didn’t offer me water to wash the dust from my feet, but she has washed them with her tears and wiped them with her hair. You didn’t greet me with a kiss, but from the time I first came in, she has not stopped kissing my feet. You neglected the courtesy of olive oil to anoint my head, but she has anointed my feet with rare perfume. “I tell you, her sins—and they are many—have been forgiven, so she has shown me much love. But a person who is forgiven little shows only little love.” Luke 7:44‭-‬47 NLT. Wow! We can't hate people and claim to love God at the same time, it is that simple.