Hey everybody, welcome to the podcast, I’m Nick and I’m stoked to be here with you today.
Today is March 3.
Each day, we follow a simple rhythm: Slow Down, Read, Notice, Reread, Meditate, Respond, and Exercise.
Let’s begin.

Slow Down

Jesus is glad you’re here. He longs to spend time with you. He loves you deeply and wants to be in your presence.
Take a moment to pause, quiet your mind, and turn your attention toward Him.
Close your eyes. Take a deep breath in, then slowly release it.
As you inhale, whisper in your heart: “Jesus, here I am.”
As you exhale, pray: “Help me follow You.”
Repeat this three times, then sit in silence for a few moments.

Read

Then Jesus went out to the lakeshore again and taught the crowds that were coming to him. As he walked along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at his tax collector’s booth. “Follow me and be my disciple,” Jesus said to him. So Levi got up and followed him.
Later, Levi invited Jesus and his disciples to his home as dinner guests, along with many tax collectors and other disreputable sinners. (There were many people of this kind among Jesus’ followers.) But when the teachers of religious law who were Pharisees* saw him eating with tax collectors and other sinners, they asked his disciples, “Why does he eat with such scum?*”
When Jesus heard this, he told them, “Healthy people don’t need a doctor—sick people do. I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners.”  (Mark 2:13–17, NLT)

Notice

What part of this story stands out to you?
Is it Levi at his booth, the simple call “Follow me,” the crowded dinner table, or Jesus’ words about coming for the sick?
Notice what stirs in you and hold it before the Lord.

Reread

Picture Jesus walking by the lakeshore, teaching the crowds, then stopping and looking directly at Levi sitting at his tax booth.

Meditate

Levi is at work when Jesus finds him. He’s sitting at a tax collector’s booth—a place of compromise and mixed loyalties. Tax collectors were seen as traitors, collaborators with Rome, and often guilty of corruption.
Yet Jesus sees Levi, not just his job, not just his reputation. He sees a disciple.
With a simple invitation—“Follow me and be my disciple”—Jesus calls Levi out of his old life and into a new one.
Levi doesn’t delay. He doesn’t negotiate. He gets up and follows. The next scene we see is at his house: a table filled with people like him—tax collectors and other “disreputable sinners.” And Jesus is right there in the middle, eating, talking, and sharing life with them.
The religious experts are offended. They can’t understand why a teacher of God’s law would share a table with people like that.
But Jesus reveals His mission: He is a doctor for the sick, not a reward for the already-righteous. He came for those who know they need Him.
Maybe you feel like Levi today—still sitting at your “booth,” aware of your compromises, your past, your brokenness. Jesus doesn’t wait for you to clean it all up. He calls you right there: “Follow me.”
Take a few moments to reflect on this question:
Where is Jesus saying to me today, in the middle of my ordinary life, “Follow me”?

Respond

Jesus, thank You for seeing me and calling me, even in the middle of my mess.
I bring You my past, my reputation, my failures, and my fears.
Give me grace to get up and follow You, step by step, today.

Exercise

The rush of life will meet you again when you leave this sacred place—but you can carry this moment into your day by forming new habits.
Habit: Open Table
Today, think of one person who might feel far from God, far from church, or far from hope.
Find a simple way to “open your table” to them—share a meal, a coffee, a walk, or a kind conversation.
As you are with them, silently pray: “Jesus, thank You for sitting at my table. Let Your presence be felt here.”

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That’s your two minutes with Jesus for today.
Now, take what you’ve heard… and live it.
Until next time, keep slowing down, keep listening, and keep walking with Jesus.
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