
People with sore and bruised hearts
(J.R. Miller, “Daily Bible Readings in the Life of Christ” 1890)
“When a woman who had lived a sinful life in that town learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee’s house, she brought an alabaster jar of perfume . . .” Luke 7:37
It is wonderful how genuine goodness draws to itself:
the unfortunate,
the troubled,
the friendless,
the outcast,
the fallen.
Wherever Jesus went, these classes always found Him out and gathered about Him. It was because He was the true, unselfish friend of all men. They found sympathy in Him. He would listen to their story. Though He was the sinless One, there was yet no air of, “I am holier than you” about Him. He was just as gentle to an outcast sinner, as to a religious Nicodemus. No matter who reached out…
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