Making the most of opportunities

In our passage from Mark this Sunday we looked at how the tax collectors, people like Levi, were despised in their day.  Yet Jesus reached out to them.

Colossians 4:5 instructs us to make the most of the opportunities we have with those outside the church.  That is impossible if there are any groups of people whom we despise.

Is there anyone toward whom we do not show the love of Christ?  If so, we need to bring it to the throne of grace and ask God to forgive us and cleanse us of such.  The Lord desires all men to come to repentance (2 Peter 3:9), and it is His own whom He sends out with the good news of Christ!