Day 1
“As she stood behind him at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. Then she wiped them with her hair, kissed them and poured perfume on them.” Luke 7:38
This woman who found refuge at the feet of Jesus—what do you suppose she had faced in her life? What could her tears have meant? Each tear falling on the feet of Jesus. I wonder what pain had she experienced in her life? What rejection? I wonder what loss could each drop had represented?
Regardless of what each tear meant, this woman had found the answer. The answer for all the pain… the rejection… the loss… the suffering. All there, spilled out at the feet of Jesus, the Messiah, was the answer… her answer. And it was Him.
These were the feet that once used the earth as their footstool. Now here they were before this broken woman, available for her to access. She could utilize His feet as the way to finding hope in her hopelessness. Life in her lifelessness. Relief in her pain. Acceptance in her rejection. Here before her was the way. The truth. The life. These feet were the feet that go before her and pave the way for her to have everlasting life. And as her tears met His feet I believe hope flooded her soul like a river flooding a once dammed up dry ground. Suddenly now what was once lost had been found.
You can find rest at the feet of Jesus…
FRIEND, God shows us something remarkable in this story. That no matter how vast we consider Him to be He has cleared the path for our access to the feet of Jesus. The very feet of the One going before us in life, paving the way for us to walk as He walked, love as He loved, live as He lived, were brought down low to this earth for us to access and this precious woman had the opportunity to do just that.
The woman in today’s scripture shows us what we can do now today in the Spirit, before Him day in and day out, finding rest at the feet of Jesus as we go low before Him, bowing down our hearts and lives in reverence, washing His feet with our tears, allowing Him to declare over us hope, life, restoration and peace. The very feet that once used the earth as a place of rest have been brought near for us to run to and find rest for our souls. Jesus is the answer to each and every one of our tears.
TODAY: find rest in your Savior. Bow low at His feet, in the quiet of your day, and allow His vast love for you to refresh and water your soul.
READ: Luke 7:36-50; Matthew 11:28-30, Psalm 23
