DAILY SCRIPTURE: Thursday: 1/16/14 Luke 5:27-32, After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. “Follow me,” Jesus said to him, 28 and Levi got up, left everything and followed him. 29 Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them. 30 But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” 31 Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 32 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” 6:12-16 One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God. 13 When morning came, he called his disciples to him and chose twelve of them, whom he also designated apostles: 14 Simon (whom he named Peter), his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, 15 Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Simon who was called the Zealot, 16 Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor. Luke 6:12 says that Jesus spent the entire night praying before he chose the twelve. How can you seek God’s wisdom before making important decisions for your life? Among Jesus’ disciples were Matthew the tax collector and Simon the Zealot. Zealots called for violent resistance to Rome and would be a tax collector’s mortal enemy. Why would Jesus put these two men together in one group?
Posted on: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 11:00:45 +0000
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