Mark 2:13-17
Jesus Came for Sinners
13 Once again Jesus went out beside the lake. A large crowd came to him, and he began to teach them. 14 As he walked along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” Jesus told him, and Levi got up and followed him.
15 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. 16 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?”
17 On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
John 3:16-17
God LOVES the World
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
Did something bad and you don't feel good about yourself?...Feeling guilty about something you did?...Make a mistake and now you have to live with that mistake?...
Let us thank Jesus who is always forgiving, who is the essence of forgiveness...He resonants with the Power of Forgiveness...And when one thinks about this, each of us know how hard it is to forgive a neighbor and to forgive and pray for an enemy...
Let us be reminded that we do have a sinful nature...But let us not forget that Jesus came to earth for us who make mistakes and errors and lapses in judgment...Jesus said that He came to earth not for the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick...He came not for the righteous, but for sinners....God LOVES the world and He LOVES sinners...So He sent a Savior for us who sin...For God so loved the world that He gave his One and Only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life...For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him...