The Tax Collector - Lenten devotional for March 7th

Please read the scripture from The Message, then meditate on it as if you were a disciple then meditate some more. 
    

     Click here to read today's scripture,  Mark 2:13-17  in The Message.
    

So we’re having supper with a “collection of disreputable guests”… So what? Who else do you think would follow a guy whose teaching is totaling new???

But the scholars and Pharisees are there too – and they’re dis’ing Jesus for supping with the “riff raff”.

Jesus is so cool – He says “Who needs a doctor…   I’m here inviting the sin-sick, not the spiritually fit.”

I’m not sure if that comment put the scholars and Pharisees in their place or really infuriated them…

Maybe they will leave us alone…

*This devotional was written by Brenda Clark