Five More Minutes with Pastor Scott Christian Hughes
Life is busy, but spending time with God doesn't have to be complicated.
Join Pastor Scott Christian Hughes each weekday for Five More Minutes—a daily devotional designed to encourage your heart, strengthen your faith, and help you walk more closely with Jesus. Through faithful, practical teaching from God's Word, each episode offers biblical truth you can apply to everyday life.
Whether you're beginning your morning, driving to work, taking a walk, or enjoying a quiet moment, these brief devotionals will help you pause, refocus, and spend five more minutes with the One who changes everything.
No matter where you are on your spiritual journey, you're invited to open God's Word and discover what He has for you today.
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Five More Minutes with Pastor Scott Christian Hughes
He Saw More Than A Tax Collector
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📖 Today's Scripture: Mark 2:13–17; Luke 5:27–32; Matthew 9:9–13
Jesus walked past a tax booth that everyone else wanted to avoid.
Most people saw a traitor.
A sinner.
A man whose life was too far gone.
But Jesus saw something entirely different.
He saw a man worth calling.
He saw what His grace could make of him.
And with two simple words, everything changed:
"Follow Me."
The same Jesus who called Levi still sees beyond our failures, our reputation, and our past. He sees the people we overlook. And He sees more in us than we often see in ourselves.
💭 Today's Truth
Everyone else saw what Levi had become. Jesus saw what His grace could make of him.
🙏 Today's Prayer
Lord Jesus, thank You for seeing more in me than my failures, my reputation, or my past. Thank You for meeting me with grace and calling me to follow You. Help me leave behind whatever keeps me seated in my old life. Teach me to see other people through Your eyes, believing that no one is beyond the reach of Your grace. And use my life to help others come to know the Savior who welcomed me. In Jesus Name, Amen.
If this prayer reflects your heart today, I encourage you to pray through it sometime today and make it your own.
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May we see people today the way Jesus sees them.
Let's walk with Him today.