Disciples Share Jesus’ Priority of Keeping
God First – and Come at His Invitation.
The story for the week, the Parable of the Wedding Banquet in Luke 14, gives rise to this week’s theme of keeping God first. It was a priority that Jesus kept during His earthly ministry and that He instructed His disciples to practice also. Too often lesser activities keep us from God’s call to us. Let’s continue to give the Spirit of God the opportunity to train us in our lives as disciples of Jesus.
Matthew 22:4, Luke 14:21b-23
He sent some more servants and said, “Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner: My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet… Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind and the lame.’ ‘Sir,’ the servant said, ‘what you ordered has been done, but there is still room.’ Then the master told his servant, ‘Go out to the roads and country lanes and compel them to come in, so that my house will be full.’”
• As a follower in Christ, I am invited to the great wedding banquet of God’s Son, and I desire to make Him a priority in my schedule even now.
Pondering Point
Labor Day weekend (a national holiday in America) is on the horizon, a time when working people take time off from responsibilities or “labors” as the name suggests.
We labor for many things – some paid, some unpaid. Either way, don't let the labors of your life keep you from the main priority of coming to God, of heeding His invitation to come be with Him – in worship, in life, in relationship with Him and the rest of the wedding party: His people, His family.
Prayer
Father God, thank You for an invitation to Your wedding feast, Your home. I pray that You see a full house thanks to Jesus, in whose name I pray. Amen.