Sinners

A woman which was a sinner washed the Savior’s feet with her tears. The Pharisee thought that Jesus should not have let the woman touch Him.

Are sinners best abandoned as untouchables?

I should wrap my arms around sinners, trying to show them the Father’s love, as the Prodigal’s father who saw him when he was yet a great way off and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

Will I be tainted by having a sinner for a friend?

I should strive to continually include sinners in my circle of close associates: they that are whole need no physician, and friendship is a celestial therapy.

Will God judge me “guilty by association”?

To the contrary, the Judgment may hold me guilty by dissociation: For I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.

I have an unspoken aim never to have sinner for a close associate. Why should I strive to be opposite from the Savior? Rather, I should aim to have sinners as my close associates.