Just a week ago, the Gospel reading at Mass was on the parable of the lost son. I blogged about it under the title God the Father's Greatest Love, for it really shows how great God's love for us is. I wrote "You have to have a heart made of stone not to be moved by it." This parable truly is the most beautiful of all the parables. In today's Gospel reading from John 8, the scribes and the Pharisee brought a woman who had been caught in adultery to Jesus and said to him, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery. Now in the law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?" They said this to test him. Jesus said to them, "Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her." In response, they went away one by one. So he was left alone with the woman before him. Jesus said to her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?" She replied, "No one, sir." Then Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go, and from now on do not sin any more." Here Jesus showed his greatest love for this woman. In John 3:17, The Lord said, "God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him." So no matter how much we sin, he does not condemn us—he simply wishes that we stop sinning and patiently waits for us to turn to him to repent our sins so that he might forgive us and save us from eternal death. If we do not do this when we can, we just get ourselves condemned in the end. It all comes down to if you let God be our God or not.
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