1-minute devotion for Tuesday, 3/3/26
I don’t know if “hang out” is the right term, but Jesus did visit the homes of sinners, and He enjoyed meals with them. So eating with sinners is right to do when our purpose is to share Christ. But there are other people that God says to avoid. I think we get that backwards sometimes by avoiding sinners and welcoming false teachers.
“While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” Matthew 9:10-13
The Bible also says,
“But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.” 2 Timothy 3:1-5
” … these teachers oppose the truth.” (v. 8)
Reflect on this: Are we hesitant to reach out to the lost, but happy to compromise with false teachers! Isn’t that the opposite of what we are told to do?
In His Love, Cindy
“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: May they prosper who love you.”
Psalm 122:6 NASB
All Scripture is from the NIV unless stated otherwise.
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