Today’s reading is Luke 5.

Of all the people clamoring to be close to Jesus, Levi (Matthew) was called. The call was simple, “Follow me.” When Matthew heard that call his immediate response was to leave it all behind and follow Jesus wherever He went.

When Jesus called Matthew, He didn’t call a morally upright person. He called a tax collector, a sinner. The religious leaders complained.

“…Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

“Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.””

Luke 5:30-32 NIV

Jesus came for the broken. As Jesus said He came for “the sick.” He came to call “sinners to repentance.”

When He calls, may we respond as Matthew did leaving behind the past life to follow the New Life- Jesus. That is when we will experience Him as our great physician, the one who heals the sickness and brokenness within our hearts.