And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican, named
Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said unto him, Follow me. And he
left all, rose up, and followed him. –
Luke 5.27-28
Levi, a hated tax collector, was sitting at his table
collecting taxes for Rome and making sure He got His own corrupt cut of the
taxes. Jesu called other men of other trades but this man was the least well
thought of and most despised of all the Jews who served Rome and their puppets
in the Temple.
As He sat there Jesus walked up and simple said ‘follow
Me.’
And Levi rose up and followed Jesus.
I know there is a lot more to it than this simple
little picture, but isn’t that a great notion of serving God? What is all
Christians simply followed Jesus? What if we followed Jesus in the way we treat
people? How about how we dealt with our enemies? What if we followed Jesus in
the places we go and things we watch and words we listen to and how we respond
to jokes?
What is we just followed Jesus? Do you think we’d make
a difference in this world od madness around us?
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