Lent Meditation: Day 10 - February 27, 2026

📖 Scripture Verse

And as [Jesus] sat at dinner in Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were also sitting with Jesus and his disciples—for there were many who followed him. When the scribes of the Pharisees saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, they said to his disciples, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?” When Jesus heard this, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I have come to call not the righteous but sinners.” — Mark 2:15-17

🕯️Meditation

This wonderful meal in Mark’s gospel points us to our own celebrations of the Lord’s Supper.  The unclean and morally questionable tax collectors and other sinners—the most excluded of people from the tables of the so-called righteous, are here called to be disciples of Jesus and to break bread with him.  As the great physician of souls, Jesus gives his wholeness and holiness to all who come to him.  You don’t have to be perfect to meet Jesus—in fact, it is those of us who struggle, who have failed, who maybe even have been looked down upon for our faults and sins—we are the ones who Jesus came to heal.  When we approach God in humility, aware of our own need, we are invited to the celebration.  If come full of self-importance and self-satisfaction with our own wonderfulness, we may find ourselves closed away from the messianic table which was spread for the hungry and weak.

🙏 Prayer

Jesus our great physician, heal me and help me to have that wholeness and largeness of life that you have created me for.  Amen.

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