Father, look upon our weakness and reach out to help us with your loving power. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son. Amen
Luke 5: 37-42
Jesus saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the customs post.
He said to him, “Follow me.”
And leaving everything behind, he got up and followed him.
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.
The Pharisees and their scribes complained to his disciples, saying,
“Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”
Jesus said to them in reply,
“Those who are healthy do not need a physician, but the sick do.
I have not come to call the righteous to repentance but sinners.”
Jesus came to heal all of us because we all sin. He loves all of us despite our flaws. He refuses to be as small as we are when we choose up sides and say God is on OUR side. With Jesus, there is no side – just common, struggling humans who need help and healing to greater or lesser degrees. We’re on a common journey as “one body in this one Lord.”
Loving creator, We are not asking to overcome our weakness, but to use it in some way to glorify you. Let us be aware of the many ways you reach out to help us today and let us stand in awe of the power that you use in such loving ways.
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