Look at this woman at the feet of Jesus; for Jesus bids you look as well as the Pharisee! Behold how she wept, how she washed the feet of Jesus, and anointed them with ointment! These were sweet tokens of her love and adoration. But were these the cause of her forgiveness? O no!
"Thy faith hath saved thee."
Learn then in what salvation lies. Love may bring ointment to Jesus. Sorrow for sin, when grace is in the heart will cause tears to fall; but faith brings nothing, for it has nothing. It casts itself wholly upon Jesus. It has nothing to do with self; neither our own feelings, nor the exercise of our graces.
Jesus is the one blessed object of faith's joy and hope, pursuit and desire.