Daily Devotional
When Last Did You Kiss Jesus?
Text: Luke 7:37-38
“And behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at the table in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster flask of fragrant oil, and stood at His feet behind Him weeping; and she began to wash His feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head; and she kissed His feet and anointed them with the fragrant oil.”
Message
Luke’s gospel speaks of Jesus’ feet being anointed by a woman who had been sinful all her life and who was crying; and when her tears started landing on the feet of Jesus, she wiped his feet with her hair.
John, clearly identifies Mary of Bethany with the woman who anointed Christ’s feet (12; cf. Matthew 26 and Mark 14). It is remarkable that already in John 11:2, John has spoken of Mary as “she that anointed the Lord’s feet”.
She knew that Jesus could forgive her of her sins. While everyone was eating, the woman came and kneeled on the floor behind Jesus. She was so sorry for her sins that she began to cry. When she saw that Jesus’ feet had not been washed, she used her tears to wash his feet.
The feet of Jesus is the place for all helpless misery, yours and mine, and “many others’. But, in the matter of Christ, it is above all things necessary that everything should be very precise, “Come unto ME.” Therefore the sick were cast at His very feet.
A kiss like a hug is not just touch. It is more. It is an affirmation, a point of contact, a laying of claim and a form of endearment and an expression of affection.
Heard you several times said Jesus is your Father, Lord, Saviour and Master but when last did you hug and kiss him?
Truth be told, I didn’t realize how important hug and kiss are, until I was asked in church during a love feast. It was a sobering moment!
Now it might sound like nothing but it was a teachable moment for me and many others, one that defined the kind of father and husband I have also become.
In a church full of over 2,000 men, pose the question; “how many of you have ever hugged or kiss Jesus today?” The hands that will go up will not be up to 100!
Seize this moment as your opportunity to hug and kiss Jesus. Begin today and do it everytime and everyday. It is good for everyone.
A hug and kissing of Jesus shows your love to him. No wonder it is personal and often private and an individual matter.
God bless as you do.