Greetings Dear Reader,
WHOA!!! I realize
that this title does not seem like my usual ones. I am not about to go on a rant about
immorality or judge a specific group of people.
I did, however, wish to grab your attention as a lead to my thoughts on
as you are going. I will get back to the
prostitutes in a moment.
As you are going you will find people who live a life that
is offensive to you. Their particular
flaws scrape against your sense of what is good and right, sometimes to the point
of disgust. As we are going, we
encounter people whose brokenness is sharp glass to our little bit of
wholeness. That sharp glass is a mirror.
No matter what we have done and how much forgiveness we have
acquired, our crookedness is still offensive to someone. We all choose some kind of wrong this is
beyond grace and mercy. We all find sin
to judge that makes us more comfortable with our own. That mirror I mentioned; it is the one that
reflects our own failures as they appear in the eyes of others. It is why Jesus made the comment about first
stones.
Try to put your mind in that moment. The GOD-man stands there saying, “Let him who
is without sin cast the first stone.”
They know that he is God incarnate even though they do not accept
it. The presence of the sinless Son searches
them as they stand there with murderous intent.
To the man, they drop their stones and leave the prostitute in the
dust.
Then, the sinless one goes to the woman and raises her out
of the dust. He does not require a
confession of faith. He does not demand
anything. He tells her to go her way and
sin no more. I have the privilege of
knowing some women who do or did this work to make their way in the world. They are humans with hearts and souls that
require love and grace.
I recently read an argument saying that no former prostitute
(Rahab) could be a part of the lineage of Christ. The problem with this is it assumes that all
the other ways in which we do wrong are acceptable as the human contribution to
the GOD-man. David was a murderer. Solomon had many wives and was a poor father.
It is broken things that the Father uses to show us our need
for his Son. Hosea was told by the
Father to take a wife who was a prostitute.
He was told to love her and he did.
She kept returning to the streets and he still loved her. Most of us would have cast her aside and
judged her lower than we are. Hosea kept
loving her even when she wronged him. We
are all crooked sticks Dear Reader. We
all fail, falter, and fall.
We are the ones who pledge ourselves to Christ and his house
then run and return to our own path. We
promise to follow in faith and then sell ourselves for what we think is
better. We return to the familiar when
the righteous way becomes too narrow for our wants. We pick sins to that are “worse” than ours
judge them to make us look better.
The ones who Jesus called out for that are the Pharisees. We deny being like them. Still, we fail to see who the faithless whores
are. We fail to look into the mirror of
other shattered lives and see the truth.
You see, when you ask who I am calling a “faithless whore”, the only
honest answer is it is us, Dear Reader.
It is us. As we are going, we may
wish to go with a bit more love, mercy, and grace. It will be easier on us if we do so,
Song
of Gomer - Michael Card
Don't know what he sees in me
He is spirit, he is free
And I the wife of adultery
Gomer is my name
Simply more than I can see
How he keeps on forgiving me
How he keeps his sanity
Hosea, you're a fool
A fool to love someone like me
A fool to suffer silently
Though sometimes through your eyes I see
I'd rather be a fool
The fondness of a father
The passion of a child
The tenderness of a loving friend
An understanding smile
All of this and so much more
You've lavished on a faithless whore
I've never known love like this before
Hosea, you're a fool
A fool to love someone like me
A fool to suffer silently
Though sometimes through your eyes I see
I'd rather be a fool
This God of yours would not have told
To lift a love that you couldn't hold
And though time and time again I flee
I'm always glad to see you coming after me
Simply more than I can see
How he keeps on forgiving me
The wife of adultery
Gomer is my name
Wishing you joy in the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every
writer who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a
homeowner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure
store.”
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Thorn:
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