There’s a story in Luke 7:47.  It’s about a woman who sought Jesus once when He was at the home of a Pharisee named Simon.  This woman, the Bible says, “had lived a sinful life in that town, (One can only venture to guess; Drugs? Alcohol? Prostitution? Lying? Stealing?  Disrespecting her parents? Adultery? )  So, the woman came in with an expensive jar of Alabaster oil and knelt at Jesus’ feet.  Tears were streaming down her face to the extent that she used the mixture of tears and oil to cleanse the Savior’s feet and even scrubbed them with her own hair!
     When Simon saw this, the Bible says that he said, to himself, that if Jesus was truly a prophet He would know that this woman was a sinner that was cleaning His feet.  (As in, “Someone who is really Holy surely wouldn’t have anything to do with the likes of her.)  But Jesus picked right up on that and told Simon a story about two men who owed a lot to a certain moneylender.  One owed like $5,000.00 and the other like $500.00.
     Well, the moneylender in a moment of great mercy decided to forgive both the men their debt.  Then Jesus asked Simon which one he thought was the most grateful.  The answer was obvious.
     Jesus forgave the woman because she was really sorry and ashamed of all she'd done.  So then Jesus told Simon that yes, the woman had sinned greatly, but that's why she loved Him greatly, because she'd been forgiven a great debt.  But those whose sins were little, loved Him only a little. 

      Our mission at Barbara Cueto Ministries is to bring others like that woman to Christ, and thus bring glory to His name.  She may be in the form of a child, or a man, but she’s the one who could not pay her debt.  She is you.  She is definitely me.

      We at the ministry are at Christ’s feet washing them with our own tears in gratitude because we know that none of us were able to pay our own sin debt, yet He did.  We love Him so very much because we have been forgiven very much indeed.  We don’t want to be Simons, thinking that somehow our own sins hurt God less than the woman’s.  In fact, we ache for all who haven’t heard His gracious message of hope and accepted His offer of salvation.

     Because we can never pay Jesus back for all He’s done, we covenant to;

·         Give ourselves entirely to Him every day

·         Pray and fast for revival in our own hearts, homes, churches, and world

·         Minister to those He loves, telling them about this wonderful Savior

·         Seek humility, by seeking after Him--through prayer, service, Worship, fellowship with other believers, giving generously, and study of His inerrant Word-- and thus more adequately exemplify Him

·         Never forget the mercy we ourselves once received and are still receiving

·         Always see the one person as being just as important to Him as the many, and regard them as such

·         Acknowledge that all of our resources are His and are to be used for His purposes

     What it’s all about is what it’s always been about—Love!  (1 John 4:7,8)