One of the dinner guests, on hearing this, said to him, “Blessed is anyone who will eat bread in the kingdom of God!” Then Jesus said to him, “Someone gave a great dinner and invited many. At the time for the dinner he sent his slave to say to those who had been invited, ‘Come; for everything is ready now.’ But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a piece of land, and I must go out and see it; please accept my regrets.’ Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to try them out; please accept my regrets.’ Another said, ‘I have just been married, and therefore I cannot come.’ So the slave returned and reported this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and said to his slave, ‘Go out at once into the streets and lanes of the town and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.’ And the slave said, ‘Sir, what you ordered has been done, and there is still room.’ Then the master said to the slave, ‘Go out into the roads and lanes, and compel people to come in, so that my house may be filled. For I tell you, none of those who were invited will taste my dinner.’” (Luke 14:15-24, NRSV)
Is it a good thing to be invited?
I guess that depends on who invited, and if you think you are too important or have somethign better to do…
You see we are all invited. We have all been invited to the banquet feast of all feasts! But what will happen when it is time for that banquet? Will we be found dealing with our new oxen, our new land, or will we be more infatuated with something else that consumes us to see the invitation?
God will have His banquet filled with people, but will it be those who think they should be, or those whom they think shouldn’t be?
When the invitaiton comes we need to drop everything and follow. He is calling us to the life we can’t possibly imagine. So be ready when He calls, and ready to go to the banquet.
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