“When the king came in to see the guests, he
noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes. ‘Friend,’ he asked, ‘how did you get in here
without wedding clothes?’ The man was
speechless. Then the king told the
attendants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness,
where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ For many are invited, but few are chosen.”
(Matthew 22:11-14)
The story above that Jesus told is a strange
one of an invitation given and then taken back because the man didn’t come
dressed appropriately. It sounds elitist
-- if you can’t afford to dress right, you don’t get into the feast!
But the wedding garments are freely given by
the King and the one not wearing them did so because of his own
stubbornness. He would come to the
banquet, but only on his own terms.
The truth of the matter is that we can only
come to God’s banquet on His terms! No
matter how much He wants us there and how often He has invited us to come, He
will not allow us in on our own terms.
And what is the wedding garment that we must put
on before we are allowed into the eternal feast with God? Paul’s admonition was to “clothe yourselves
with the Lord Jesus Christ.” (Romans 13:14)
He is the wedding garment, freely given by God, without which we will
never be allowed to enter the feast.
Jesus is the terms of salvation … the only
terms. None will come to the feast
without Him, with Him, anyone can come to the feast.
Thank God for Jesus.
His, by Grace,
Steve
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