Mark 2: 13 Then Jesus went out to the lakeshore again and taught the crowds that were coming to him.14 As he walked along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at his tax collector's booth. "Follow me and be my disciple," Jesus said to him. So Levi got up and followed him.
15 Later, Levi invited Jesus and his disciples to his home as dinner guests, along with many tax collectors and other notorious sinners. (There were many people of this kind among Jesus' followers.)16 But when the teachers of religious law who were Pharisees* saw him eating with tax collectors and other sinners, they asked his disciples, "Why does he eat with such scum?"
17 When Jesus heard this, he told them, "Healthy people don't need a doctor—sick people do. I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners."
Evidently, these notorious sinners were drawn to Jesus by the kind of person He was & how He treated them.
(I wonder what you had to do to be a "notorious sinner" back then?! I also wonder if anyone would be called a "notorious sinner" today?!)
When I read that verse, I wondered what it was about Jesus that drew these notorious sinners to Him?
The other thing I wondered was if people are drawn to me/us because of the Jesus they see living inside of me/us?
Because that's all I/we have - the Jesus living inside of us. It's not like I'm/we're all holy & everything! It has to be the Jesus that pokes out if I/we ever hope to influence people to follow Him
How do I/we get this Jesus-radiating-out-of-us? Spend time with Him. Read His Book.
yeah...
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