God Calls Us Too!

 Mt 9: 9-13

The Calling of Matthew

⁹ As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him.

¹⁰ While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. ¹¹ When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

¹² On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. ¹³ But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

God works mysteriously in our lives, no doubt about it.  Looking back to our childhood, most of us had no idea what adulthood would hold for us.  Sitting at his tax table, Levi (later, Matthew), had no idea that this itinerant preacher's command, "Follow me," would have such an impact on his life or on the millions who would read his gospel in the centuries to follow. 

Perhaps the lesson for us today, is to come face to face with the God of mercy, and trust that he will give us every help we need to be faithful disciples, as Matthew was, and in our own small (or big) way have a lasting impact on the people with whom we interact daily.

Bro. Rene