Joel M Bradshaw

27After this he [Jesus] went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth. And he said to him, “Follow me.” 28And leaving everything, he rose and followed him. 29And Levi made him a great feast in his house, and there was a large company of tax collectors and others reclining at table with them. –Luke 5

1. The tax collectors were seen as ethnic traitors working against their people and instead for the hated Romans.
2. Not whom the crowd might have expected an influential rabbi to choose as a disciple!
3. Yet, Jesus intentionally went out to Levi’s booth.
4. Jesus calls the “worst of sinners” to follow Him.
5. Levi immediately ran after the opportunity.
6. He even gathered all his tax collector friends and threw a dinner party to introduce them to Jesus!
7. Levi was given a new story, a new identity, and a new way of life. This Easter, live with that attitude and perspective.–JMB