Different kinds of people were the disciples of Jesus, apart from the twelve apostles they were also women who were his followers and to many who were not his disciples, they regarded this as a scandal; one of the women was Mary Magdalene who was delivered from seven demons, she later became the first ambassador of Christ’s resurrection. Luke was writing to an audience that had a social perception about woman and children. Men generally feel that women should not hold higher responsibility especially out there in the society but for Christ everyone is important so as long as you have heard and listen to his call and that is why it is said that we should attach much importance to all who have heard about Christ Jesus.
For these women believers, they love Jesus with a deeper affection than they dare to give to any other being. They would sooner lose their family than part with Christ. They hold all earthly comforts with a loose hand, but they carry him fast locked in their bosoms. They voluntarily deny themselves for his sake, but they are not to be driven to deny him. It is scant love which the fire of persecution can dry up; the true believer’s love is a deeper stream than this. Men have laboured to divide the faithful from their Master, but their attempts have been fruitless in every age. Neither man nor devil have found a key which opens this lock this bound between the disciples and the Master.
It is our daily lament that we cannot love enough. Would that our hearts were capable of holding more, and reaching further. Like Samuel Rutherford, we sigh and cry, “Oh, for as much love as would go round about the earth, and over heaven—yea, the heaven of heavens, and ten thousand worlds—that I might let all out upon fair, fair, only fair Christ.” Alas! our longest reach is but a span of love, and our affection is but as a drop of a bucket compared with his deserts. Measure our love by our intentions, and it is high indeed.
Amos9:9 says;
For surely, I will give the command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth”
Observe the complete safety of the Lord’s wheat; even the least grain has a promise of preservation. God himself sifts, and therefore it is stern and great work; he sifts them in all places, “among all nations”; he sifts them in the most effectual manner, “like as corn is sifted in a sieve”; and yet for all this, not the smallest, lightest, or most shrivelled grain, is permitted to fall to the ground.
Therefore, every individual believer (men, women and children alike) is precious in the sight of the Lord, a shepherd would not lose one sheep, nor a mother one child, nor will the Lord lose one of his redeemed people.
However little we may be, if we are the Lord’s, we may rejoice that we are preserved in Christ Jesus.
