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?” 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.” Mark 2:15-17
I write this with all reverence: God Himself cannot deliver a person who
is not in trouble. Therefore, it is to some advantage to be in
distress, because God can then deliver you. Even Jesus Christ, the
Healer of me, cannot heal a person who is not sick. Therefore, sickness
is not an adversity for us, but rather an advantageous opportunity for
Christ to heal us. The point is, your adversity may prove your advantage
by offering occasion for the display of divine grace.
- Charles Spurgeon
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