Scarlet Robe Creations

Nicolas Poussin - Christ et la femme adultere "I had a dream," a young man says to his pastor. "I was standing before Jesus.  It was like I was dead and I was standing at the gates of paradise.  I could see a great shining city in the background.  I felt an urgency to want to be there."  The young man pauses for a moment, causing the pastor to speak. "And Jesus approached you?" "Not at first.  He was sitting on the ground, by a great wall.  There was just sand, you know.  Everything was dusty.  The sun was hot.  I could feel it.  It wasn't that way in the city.  I'm not sure how I knew that, but where we stood, it was dusty and we seemed to be baking in the sun.  He, Jesus, smoothed out an area on the ground and was drawing meaningless figures in the dirt... or maybe I should say dust.  Everything was so dusty." "Meaningless figures?" The young man nods his head. "They weren't letters or anything that might make words....

They 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?" John 8:4-5 Jesus and the adulteress - Rembrandt The accusers fall back into the shadows when the light is shone upon them. Their sins are no less than the ones they chose to judge against. The law of the Lord seeks repentance and forgiveness. The law of guilty men seeks condemnation. There are no stones to hurl into the air. No blood is shed in payment. Every accuser who drags the sinner into the street has cowered from the gaze of light. What words are written in the sand, hypocritical slander, abuses of God's offered direction? Do not claim righteousness if you would consider casting a stone. Do not claim the words of your maker if you would judge her sin as greater than your own. Do not listen to the words of salvation if you have no inclination to take them into your h...