“No one,” she answered. And she called him “Lord.”

“Neither do I condemn you,” he told her.

Do you ever wonder why? Perhaps for all the nakedness of her sin, what Jesus knew that the accusers did not, was the condition of her heart, the circumstances of her situation, and — more importantly — where she was spiritually at that very moment. “Lord,” she called him. Kurios, in the Greek, meaning, “Messiah.”

“Go and leave your life of sin,” he concluded.

Understood rather than condemned. Saved rather than stoned. Sin exposed yet covered in His love.

What about you?

Award-winning national speaker Eva Marie Everson is a graduate of Andersonville Theological Seminary. Her work includes the just released Sex, Lies, and the Media (Cook) and The Potluck Club; Trouble’s Brewing (Baker/Revell) She can be contacted for comments or for speaking engagement bookings at www.evamarieeverson.com

[1] John 8: 4, 5

[2] See Dt. 22:23, 24 and Lev 20:10; Dt. 22:22)

[3] Ex. 31:18

[4] John 8:10