Jesus Calls Levi

 Note:  I wasn't feeling well earlier...and suddenly snapped back to normal, but too late for a full slice of bread.

   

 Matthew 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.”

We know not what God has in store for us as we begin each day.  Little did Levi suspect that Jesus would call him to leave behind his tax collector's table and follow him, an invitation that continues to impact readers of his Gospel to this day.

What is God inviting me to do today?

Bro. Rene