This session is based on the same event as the second passage of session 2, but now from St. Matthew's account (9, 9-13). Since we're to have repeat sessions on each of these passages, I'm going to try to overcome a little disappointment in what is a virtually identical account, except for the use of the Greek form of Matthew's name rather than the Hebrew/Aramaic Levi used by St. Luke.
I guess the main thing that remains is for me to acknowledge afresh, in light of how my morning has gone, that I find my only hope in Jesus' insistence that he came not for the righteous, but for sinners. But this is Lent, and I must also remember that Jesus' ministry in my life is about my transformation as well as my redemption, or more accurately, that my redemption is only complete to the degree that I allow the Spirit to transform me. That is what this season is supposed to be about, for me. I pray that my attitude toward pleasure and toward others would become more like God's and less like the world's. But my attitudes and habits are so deeply ingrained, only God can possibly make this change in me. I thought I'd been having a pretty good year so far, too.
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