Friday, February 26
Mark 2: 13-22
“It is not the healthy who need the doctor, but the sick.
I came to call not the upright, but sinners.”
It’s so easy, and in some ways natural, to see yourself as the center of the universe. With this comes the notion that others should try and live up to the example you set. The fact is that each of us is very capable of sin, but we often focus our scrutiny on others. “You see a lot, Dr. Lecter. But are you strong enough to point that high-powered perception at yourself?” What we need to realize is that our sins are known in heaven, and that they are forgiven. We are being called not because we have reached perfection, but because we need a leg up. Surely there is no higher calling.
Mark Ramey, Jr.