I’ve had my
share of helping others,
But I, Levi,
got caught up in my own greed,
As a tax
collector I was selected,
I swore to
do my best in office,
But my
dishonesty was soon detected,
All the good
deeds I had ever done,
Were all forgotten
by those I served,
And I lost
all the trust I had won,
I was
required to go before a judge,
I secretly
offered a share of my profits,
But the man
was honest and wouldn’t budge,
I found out
he was afraid of the trouble it might bring,
He suspected
officials were on to him,
Trying to
snare him with legal strings,
I didn’t
need to take an honesty test,
I’d take
whatever the Romans gave me,
And of
course, I would steal the rest,
Money was
always worth fighting for,
Why worry
about what the rich were getting,
There would
always be the poor,
Because I
stole I was always the one to blame,
When I was
called to follow Jesus,
Matthew
became my new name,
Most of the
population still hated me,
They knew I
worked for the Romans,
And the Romans
were the enemy,
I don’t know
why Jesus gave me mercy and grace,
But he said
my sins were completely forgiven,
They were gone
without a single trace,
Hated by the
Pharisees, I was still a Jew,
But a
different world was revealed around me,
And the more
He taught, I knew.
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