Acting Cozy with the Riffraff

Later Jesus and his disciples were at home having supper with a collection of disreputable guests. Unlikely as it seems, more than a few of them had become followers. The religion scholars and Pharisees saw him keeping this kind of company and lit into his disciples: “What kind of example is this, acting cozy with the riffraff?” The Message brilliantly captures Christ's passion for sinners here where he was accused by the Pharisees of acting cozy with the riffraff.  Why did they accuse him of this?  Because he was having supper with a collection of disreputable guests.  It's hard to escape the thought that our reaction to Christ would have been the same as the Pharisees.   The whole point of Christ's ministry was to go after the lost, the spiritually blind, the sinners, the riffraff.   Is your heart so constrained by Christ that others accuse you of acting cozy with the riffraff.  You are probably on the Christ-honoring path.