NOTES for Mat 9:12-13
These words are the testimony of God’s greatest mercy. It’s we people who discourse our relations with God in terms of worthy and unworthiness. But God knows very well who we are; and He has come exactly to such people, to us; Not because we are worthy of His mercy and not because we can recompense Him with something, but just because we need Him.
We often ask: “where is God?” being aggrieved on Him because He left us in our sufferings. No, He hasn’t left us, although we don’t deserve it in anything. But there is a radical difference from what He does and what we expect from Him. We expect that God will be correcting the circumstances of our life, for everything to be fine. Whereas, the Lord says that He came to call to penance, i.e. not to correct the circumstances of life, but to correct us ourselves.