Jesus in a Tax Office Poem by Reinhard Bonnke 1. Israel suffered under the iron wings of the Roman Eagle severe oppression. Rome’s imperial talons clawed and stole the nation’s possession. Levi, a tax-expert, was on the wrong political side, considered a hideous spy. Let’s visit his office collecting tolls, to understand the way how Jesus calls. The tax official sat in his bureau up the road, before him his day’s workload. He had shifted his table out of the sun, now touching a visiting man. 2. And there He was, this visitor blocked the light, but Levi just kept sitting tight. Whoever this man was, he politely and patiently stood still in the pause. A sense of being carefully studied overcame Levi, upsetting him of course. Without looking up he said “Yes?” All quiet, no movement, but he felt stress. Annoyed, he looked up and was shaken: it was Jesus, whom he already had met Looking at Him He felt the bliss, how Christ’s eyes burnt themselves into his. 3. Jesus kept smiling, the whole atmosphere changing from tough to love, To an overture, a personal gesture, gushes of love from heaven above. Confused with mixed reactions and stirrings, Levi simply lost his bearings. How long the moment was Levi couldn’t remember, but finally Jesus spoke. “Levi! Follow me!” He said, and that was it, Levi’s resistance broke. His tax-pen fell from his fingers, he could no more linger. 4. Levi never knew why, but this offer to serve Jesus would never again come by. He realized that the hand of the Lord was resting over his own, as never known. Leaning closer, looking intently at him, he made his decision with no interim! At once Levi rose, shut the tax office up and followed Jesus never to look back That is the glory many feel when Jesus steps into their lives to make the appeal. Levi followed Him to become an Apostle of the Lamb, one of the eternal elite.
Posted on: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 14:08:01 +0000
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