scum

Luke 5 

27 Later, as Jesus left the town, he saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at his tax collector’s booth. “Follow me and be my disciple,” Jesus said to him. 28 So Levi got up, left everything, and followed him.

29 Later, Levi held a banquet in his home with Jesus as the guest of honor. Many of Levi’s fellow tax collectors and other guests also ate with them. 30 But the Pharisees and their teachers of religious law complained bitterly to Jesus’ disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with such scum?[a]”

31 Jesus answered them, “Healthy people don’t need a doctor—sick people do. 32 I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners and need to repent.”

As I read thru the gospels I almost always include this story in my blog for that day.

It's because of the 2 age old questions this passage always asks...

1. "Is there so much of Jesus in who & what we are that the "scum" of this world WANTS to hang around us?"

2. "Are each of us so surrendered to Jesus that we WANT to be around people the world considers "scum"?"