Tears, Feet, and Anointing: Inner Worship

Neville's Inner Vision

To the I AM within, Luke 7:38 reveals worship as an inner movement that transforms the self. The tears, the washing, the kiss, the anointing are not ceremonial objects but acts of consciousness. The woman stands at the feet of Christ—the symbol of awareness—behind the Master, a posture of surrender and humility. In Neville's terms, she yields to an inner conviction: she is forgiven, she is beloved, she is whole. The tears are the release of a remembered guilt; the washing is the renewal of your being by the stream of attention; the hair and kiss denote an affectionate acknowledgment of the Self; the ointment signifies grace poured into consciousness. When you reinterpret this scene as a psychological drama, you don't need another person to perform it; you perform it in imagination and claim the state. The mercy shown to Jesus in Luke's scene is your own mercy toward a former version of yourself; reconciliation flows as you inhabit the I AM and accept you are already loved, already cleansed, already anointed. This is true worship—an inward, not outward, rite.