THE CALLING OF LEVI

March 12, 2011

 

D A I L Y G O S P E L

 

Love is never interested in the benefits or returns for loving. This is a very difficult attitude to develop. The world is motivated by ‘investment return benefits’ and very little else. Even donations to disaster funds can depend upon whether there is tax deductibility for the donation or not. God’s love demands nothing and gives everything freely. This is what we must seek to imitate. If enough of us are successful, the world will never be the same again.

 

VERSE BEFORE THE GOSPEL

I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked man, says the Lord, but rather in his conversion, that he may live.

 

Luke 5:27-32

27 Jesus saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the customs post. He said to him, “Follow me.” 28 And leaving everything behind, he got up and followed him. 29 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. 30 The Pharisees and their scribes complained to his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” 31 Jesus said to them in reply, “Those who are healthy do not need a physician, but the sick do. 32 I have not come to call the righteous to repentance but sinners.”