Jesus is inviting all of us to follow Him, what is your response? He does not demand that we repent first, He does not place conditions, instead He simply asks that we walk with Him. He seeks our companionship, He seeks to heal us, to fill us with His love. He has come to honour us with His presence, do we honour Him by our Yes? On our journey with Him, we are forgiven, we are made whole for we have heeded His call to repentance. Let us reach out to Him and cry out, “Here I am Lord, I want to follow you. * Amen
Gospel
Luke 5:27-32
Jesus noticed a tax collector, Levi by name, sitting by the customs house, and said to him, ‘Follow me.’ And leaving everything he got up and followed him.
In his honour Levi held a great reception in his house, and with them at table was a large gathering of tax collectors and others. The Pharisees and their scribes complained to his disciples and said, ‘Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?’ Jesus said to them in reply, ‘It is not those who are well who need the doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the virtuous, but sinners to repentance.’
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