Levi
Moment
Jesus
seems to have a reputation to seek out and choose people of
ill repute. Mathew
was an outsider, a traitor, a Roman sympathizer,
someone who oppressed the
people and corrupt to the core.
This tax collector had no real friends other
than people who
worshiped his money.
Mathew seemed to be lost in the dark.
Isaiah says, “if you remove
oppression from your midst… light shall rise for
you”, and so does
Jesus the light appear before him to offer him a way out of
the
dark. Mathew ‘leaves everything behind’, a life of wealth, for a life
with Jesus.
Jesus offers him friendship and breaks bread with him on the table.
Jesus
is mercy-incarnate and dispenser of divine forgiveness and
peace. Jesus clearly
becomes the ‘repairer of breaches’ and
‘restorer of ruined homesteads’.
Lent is
a time recognize that
at times we are the unworthy,
the sinners, the outsiders
and
the ‘non observers of the law’
whom the ‘seeker of the lost’ is
eagerly hunting
for. Today let
us delight in the Lord who has nothing but compassion and love
for
us who are experiencing the ‘Levi moment’ of darkness.
All that God asks of us is a moment of compunction to come to the
true Light, Jesus who wants to
offer us another lease in life.
Do you realize how much you need the Divine healer who says,
“The healthy do not need a doctor, sick people do”?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeUPu4y59pw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeUPu4y59pw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFjbCA4RLJY
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