NOTES for Luk 5:32

Jesus came to call the sinners. But why do we answer to this call? Where does the will to answer in us come from? It would be easier and more rational to first of all recognize the almighty action of the Holy Spirit that produces in us such a will. But our own participation, our consent to answer to this call are also necessary. Where does this come from? It is difficult to guess the possibility of such appetencies by looking oneself from outside. The one who in his pettinesses, takes care only of himself, who is thirsty of peace and a big granary full with all the necessities till the end of time, who don’t trust any creature will not make out even the hundredth of the indispensable will to answer to this call of Jesus. Besides, such a person by seeing others who are similar to him finds that they have in them strange and horrifying things, and he sees nothing more, no qualities that can compel to say “yes” to God. Nevertheless, when people suffering of sin encounter face to face with the impeccable, the innocent, sinless Jesus Christ, they agree to follow Him. It is not very probable that we can completely define the reasons, but one is well known. Speaking about Jesus as being a Man in all, except sin, we just don’t mean that He ate and drank, spoke and was quiet, laughed and cried, but also that He has never committed evil. When we meet with Him, we recognize for the first time a Person that will never think badly about us; will never condemn us; will never say malignant gossip about us in our absence. It is this everlasting "never" that generate in us the vital necessity to never part from him.