When You Meet JesusSýnishorn

Meeting  The Woman caught in Adultery

When somebody is deeply embarrassed, ashamed or humiliated we have the choice to join the mockers and make the person’s life more miserable or stand with the troubled soul to offer our support. 

We have the choice to join the stone throwers and  throw stones or discourage stone throwers from throwing stones. We  have the choice to judge or leave the judgment to God the righteous judge.

 Either way, we have a choice just like Jesus in John 8, where a woman caught in adultery was brought before him. Jesus refused to throw a stone, He refused to mock the woman, He refused to judge her. The first priority for Jesus is to save anyone who meets Him including you. 

Jesus will never turn His back on an opportunity to save a soul and that is who He is. We all know in a moment life can change from good to very unpleasant. The woman caught in adultery had enjoyed herself and in the next moment faced stone throwing executioners. But here enters Jesus the savior, "Anyone without sin cast the first stone."(John 8:7) When she scared for her life and didn't have hope to live, the encounter with Jesus later brought about a life fulfilled and her name in the annals of history.

The nineteenth-century British preacher C. H. Spurgeon said, “God’s mercy is so great that you may sooner drain the sea of its water, or deprive the sun of its light, or make space too narrow, than diminish the great mercy of God.” Jesus has paid the debt for us with His own self and has set us free from eminent death. Barabbas, in Matthew, chapter 27, was a notorious prisoner condemned to death but chosen by the crowd over Jesus to be released by Pontius Pilate in a customary pardon before the feast of Passover. Barabbas deserved the death sentence, but he did not die for his punishment because he met Jesus at the right time.

 We were all like Barabbas: ready to be executed until God’s grace and mercy found us. I will encourage you today to make meeting with Jesus your mindset and watch Him change your circumstance.