Jesus Calls Levi and Eats with Sinners

The privileges that come with being one of God’s chosen…

Luke 2:13-17
13 Once again Jesus went out beside the lake. A large crowd came to him, and he began to teach them. 14 As he walked along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” Jesus told him, and Levi got up and followed him.

15 While Jesus was having dinner at Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with him and his disciples, for there were many who followed him. 16 When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

17 On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

I often think about all of the people that I have avoided in my life because I judged them either for they way they looked or acted. The reason being is that they made me feel uncomfortable. They required me to move out of my comfort zone, and that was hard for me.

As I have grown older I have found some amazing relationships through working in the power of the Holy Spirit rtaher than the power of David Keith. It’s not even a contest. I am powerless without Him. I am the sick that needs the doctor. I am the sinner that requires my Father’s love. I am the one that needs Jesus. I need Him everday. Without Him I am wretched, blind, and lifeless. Thank God He came for me.

The more I get to know Christ and develop a close and intimate relationship with Him, the more I find that His words are becoming my words. His wants are my wants. His love is my love. I am becoming more and more like Him.

By no means do I say that I have all the answers or that I have this whole thing figured out. I mess up daily. That’s beside the point. Jesus made me a promise, and every single day that I wake I stretch for that promise of His love, all well knowing that when the race is finished I will be honored to even sweep my Father’s floor in Heaven. But He has more for me. Way more. I am headed towards His will. No matter how beautifully difficult it may be.

Amen. Maranatha.
DK