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[elizabethcog]

Jesus was color blind in every sense of the word I think,He really knew how to love (still does) because He is love,even when the woman was caught red-handed in her sin and the religious people dragged her out to condemn her what did Love do? Write in the sand ,I sometimes wonder what Jesus wrote maybe just doodled until all those who also had sin walked off after Jesus told them to cast that first stone if any had no sin,then he asked the woman about it and told her to go and stop her sinning.I love this example of how we are to see others,not always with our earthly eyes but perhaps through Jesus eyes and a heavenly merciful heart,now I wanna love like that and I pray for a transformed heart by the Master surgeon himself Jesus!

[Jay Turner]

When we look at the story of Jesus and the woman caught in adultery, I think it is important to remember who it was that brought the woman to Jesus for judgment. It was the teachers of the Law and the Pharisees. It is easy for God's people to take on an "us vs. them" attitude, where we begin to look down upon the "heathens and the sinners". When we see their hurts and their brokenness, are we meeting them where they are, bringing healing and showing them God's love? Or do we harden our hearts, taking the moral high road and turn our backs on them? In that moment of brokenness, where she was searching and open, they had the opportunity to bring healing, to show mercy and love. But they couldn't see past the harshness of the law and their desires to entrap Jesus, to the deeper things of God.

[elizabethcog]

So true Jay,you know when I am tempted to judge others by my simple mind God always reminds me that I do not have the whole picture and I have not walked in any shoes but my own muddy ones from when I have stumbled and Jesus helps me back on the narrow path He carved out and I am to reach out in love to help a brother or sister when they stumble too,I am notGod and should consider Him in all times and ways,He never leaves us. Trying to know things that are of God would be like me reading a paragraph in a book and then knowing what the whole story is about...I pray I and all of us choose to love God and others and let THE King and Lord Jesus take care of the rest=D