Written by: Julie Parker
Reading: Luke 5:27-32
27 After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. “Follow me,” Jesus said to him, 28 and Levi got up, left everything and followed him.
29 Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them. 30 But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”
31 Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 32 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
Lent gives us a period of time to consider the life of Jesus and the choices he made to give each of us eternal life through our faith in him. Jesus was fully man and fully God. He understands each of us completely.
As a doctor, Luke is clinical in his descriptions of the life of Jesus. Luke tells of Jesus collecting the men whom he asks to walk with him and become his disciples. One was the tax collector Levi, and it seems that people of Jesus' time thought of tax collectors with even greater distain than we view the IRS today. So, many questioned Jesus choosing Levi; but Jesus answered "It is not the healthy people who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to invite good people but sinners to change their hearts and lives."
What comfort that should give each of us. Jesus is looking for us, imperfect, broken, and weak. He calls us to join him and be his disciples on earth, until he calls us to join him in heaven.
Dear Jesus, thank you for loving me so much that you willingly claimed the cross so that I might have eternal life. Let me walk with you each day of my life, being a reflection of your love. Amen.
Reading: Luke 5:27-32
27 After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. “Follow me,” Jesus said to him, 28 and Levi got up, left everything and followed him.
29 Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them. 30 But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”
31 Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 32 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
Lent gives us a period of time to consider the life of Jesus and the choices he made to give each of us eternal life through our faith in him. Jesus was fully man and fully God. He understands each of us completely.
As a doctor, Luke is clinical in his descriptions of the life of Jesus. Luke tells of Jesus collecting the men whom he asks to walk with him and become his disciples. One was the tax collector Levi, and it seems that people of Jesus' time thought of tax collectors with even greater distain than we view the IRS today. So, many questioned Jesus choosing Levi; but Jesus answered "It is not the healthy people who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to invite good people but sinners to change their hearts and lives."
What comfort that should give each of us. Jesus is looking for us, imperfect, broken, and weak. He calls us to join him and be his disciples on earth, until he calls us to join him in heaven.
Dear Jesus, thank you for loving me so much that you willingly claimed the cross so that I might have eternal life. Let me walk with you each day of my life, being a reflection of your love. Amen.
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