What a drama is in our reading today (John 7:53-8:20)! The Pharisee "police" have caught a woman in adultery "in the very act". Can you imagine that scene? It is early and they burst into the temple-teaching Jesus has started, shove her in front, to see if He would go along with the law to stone her. He responds by bending over and writing on the ground. I would love to have seen this.
Finally, things have diffused so people can hear when He says, "Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her." That is enough to make even the religious "police" think twice. So they all retreat (oldest first). Then He who was without sin says to her, "Then neither do I condemn you."
It seems that it is hard for me to get it through my judgmental head that Jesus came to set His people free. I've been trying to pound it in by remembering Romans 8:1 ("Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,").
Finally, things have diffused so people can hear when He says, "Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her." That is enough to make even the religious "police" think twice. So they all retreat (oldest first). Then He who was without sin says to her, "Then neither do I condemn you."
It seems that it is hard for me to get it through my judgmental head that Jesus came to set His people free. I've been trying to pound it in by remembering Romans 8:1 ("Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,").
Lord, help us remember this especially when we are tempted to condemn ourselves. Let conviction lead us into Your arms.
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