Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?

“While Jesus was having dinner at Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with him and his disciples, for there were many who followed him. When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

Mark 2:15-16

 

 

I wonder just whom Jesus might sit down with tonight if He came for dinner?

Would He make His way to the Vatican to sit down and break bread with the Pope?

Do you think He would stop by the home of Billy Graham in the Carolina mountains?

Surely He wouldn’t pass up an invite to Joel Osteen or Dr. Younggi Cho’s churches!

Or would He?

I think He probably would.

With all due respect to these individuals I think He might seek out the least and the lost.

I don’t know which city in our nation has the greatest homeless population but perhaps He would be found there.

With little or no fanfare He would minister and touch those forgotten or forsaken.

It wouldn’t make the next newsletter because there would be no newsletter.

Probably not even a Jesus Facebook page.

But I think wherever He would be, crowds would gather.

People are hungry for the truth.

Some don’t even know it.

Matthew didn’t leave his tax collecting until he came face to face with Jesus and His call to follow Him.

I think we sometimes behave like people must be ‘clean’ or at least ‘decent’ before they come to Jesus.

Cleaned up before they can be washed clean?

Sounds too much like someone who doesn’t believe there is enough power in the blood to still do the work.

But there is!

I cannot cleanse my own sin let alone someone else’s’.

Let’s stop trying.

Let God do the work only He can do.

We can love them.

Only God can wash away their sin!