The invitation of God is to a feast as joyous as a wedding feast. His invitation is to joy. To think of following Jesus as a gloomy giving up of everything which brings laughter and sunshine, and happy fellowship is to misunderstand its purpose. The tragedy of life is that it is often that what is second best shuts out that which is the best. Things that are good shut out what is supreme. A person can be so busy making a living that he or she fails to make a life. The door is open to everyone. It is grace that beckons us and with it comes responsibility. We cannot go on living the same life they we had before meeting the Lord. We will be clothed in a new purity new holiness and new goodness. The door is open not for the sinner to come and remain a sinner but for the sinner to come and be a saint. In the book of Judges, we see how Jephthah was led by the spirit is seeking the Lord’s intervention in his mission making a vow which cost him giving up the most precious thing in his life his only child.

Prayer: Heavenly Father, we lay our lives before you, here we are we come to do your will. Amen