When he went out after this, he noticed a tax collector, sitting at the tax office, and said to him, “Follow me.” And leaving everything, Levi got up and followed him. Luke 5:27-28

“Our lives are destined to become like the life of Jesus. The whole purpose of Jesus’ ministry is to bring us to the house of his Father. Not only did Jesus come to set us free from the bonds of sin and death, he also came to lead us into the intimacy of his divine life. . . . [What does the “intimacy of his divine life” mean?] . . . It is a life in which everything seems to remain the same. . . . What is new is we have moved from the many things to the kingdom of God. . . . ”

to read the rest of this devotional see Show Me the Way: Daily Lenten Readings by Henri Nouwen