Gospel: Luke 5: 27-32
Jesus saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the customs post. He said to him, “Follow me.” And leaving everything behind, he got up and followed him. Then Levi gave a great banquet for him in his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were at table with them. The Pharisees and their scribes complained to his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” Jesus said to them in reply, “Those who are healthy do not need a physician, but the sick do. I have not come to call the righteous to repentance but sinners.”
- follow: to engage in as a calling or way of life; to be or act in accordance with; to accept as authority; to copy after (imitate); to go after or along with as companion; to keep up with an understand.
- What, or whom, do I follow? Do I view my following of Christ as an obligation, a "list-checking" exercise? Or do I see myself as His companion, going along with Him at my side, and me at His?
- leave: (bequeath), to allow to remain in the same place or condition; to fail to take along; to permit to be or remain subject to another's action or control; to go away from; to terminate association from (desert, abandon).
- What things have I already left behind to follow Jesus? How often do I thank God, and others, for the grace to leave behind other, un-godly ways of thinking and being?
- behind: in the place or situation that is being or has been departed from; in a secondary or inferior position.
- How closely does my past, and my past sins, follow me? What can I do to, on a daily basis, leave everything behind and make the everything farther behind and in a more inferior position of influence in my life?
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