My wife digs really deep holes to plant perennials, I haul away clay and she replaces it with rich soil, bone meal, manure and peat moss so she will have happy plants.
Anyway last night she went so deep, that her shovel hit a clay pot, probably somewhere in the Middle East. She broke open the pot and pulled out a very ancient scroll, and because I am a know-it-all she asked me what it said.
I said give me a minute and I will decipher it. So I took it in the bathroom and clicked a few pictures of it and then used my handy ancient greek translation app to find out what it said.
Interestingly, it was a story of Jesus being brought a woman who was caught in adultery, and he was asked what should be done with her. He, wanting the best outcome, stooped down and started writing all the answers he could think of and the probable outcome of each response. Finally, he stood up and said, “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.”
Then he bent back down and erased his writing and started writing down things that he might say to her if they did not kill her. Well, they didn’t kill her, but as one of the people who wanted to stone her, shuffled off, he kicked dirt over part of what Jesus had written.
Jesus writing was much like a doctors as even he had trouble reading it sometimes, But he stood up and read to the woman, “ Where are those who condemn you?” She replyed,”None are left, Rabbi.”
So Jesus looked down and read, “Then neither do I condemn you, now go and,” His writing was illegible, beyond that so he just blurted, “Have a nice day”
She ran away gleefully, and he slapped his forhead, because he knew that wasn’t quite right.
A couple days later, the same woman, fleeing the same crowd, for repeating the same crime, ran to the same spot where Jesus had saved her and remembering what Jesus said, she turned defiantly to the crowd and shouted, “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.”
They all looked at each other in amazement and then as one hurled their stones and she was immediately buried in what is still known to this day as Tell Mia Story.
Roughly translates as “The Self-Righteous Sexually Immoral Rock.”
Never know what you will learn with a crazy gardening wife.
Jesus saves us from all sin, but he does require us to turn from that sin and follow Him.