Sharing Scripture (4)
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Story Of The Great Feast Matthew 22:1-14 Catholic Reference Edition, NLT 1 Jesus also told them other parables. He said, 2 "The Kingdom of Heaven can be illustrated by the story of a king who prepared a great wedding feast for his son. 3 When the banquet was ready, he sent his servants to notify those who were invited. But they all refused to come! 4 "So he sent other servants to tell them, 'The feast has been prepared. The bulls and fattened cattle have been killed, and everything is ready. Come to the banquet!' 5 But the guests he had invited ignored them and went their own way, one to his farm, another to his business. 6 Others seized his messengers and insulted them and killed them. 7 "The king was furious, and he sent out his army to destroy the murderers and burn their town. 8 And he said to his servants, 'The wedding feast is ready, and the guests I invited aren't worthy of the honor. 9 Now go out to the street corners and invite everyone you see.' 10 So the servants brought in everyone they could find, good and bad alike, and the banquet hall was filled with guests. 11 "But when the king came in to meet the guests, he noticed a man who wasn't wearing the proper clothes for a wedding. 12 'Friend,' he asked, 'how is it that you are here without wedding clothes?' But the man had no reply. 13 Then the king said to his aides, 'Bind his hands and feet and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 14 "For many are called, but few are chosen." |
Jesus, The Lord and Savior, tells us a story or parable here that is quite popular in Christiandom but how well have the normal of us examined Our Savior's story or parable
and His many possible meanings to ourself and or about others? May be He is is even saying something to all of us about Himself and or God whom He is at the same time He tells the story.
This is what occurred to me the last time I read the parable or Story Of The Great Feast which was May 28, 2013. Perhaps best of all God might be saying He is not an unjust God
throwing you out for being exactly what or whom He invited when the more worthy refused Him. Therefore God will never see or send to the hellfire whom He has invited.
So exactly whom is being shown as called and not chosen or vice versa in the Savior's Parable of A Great Feast?
The King with high Godlike authority over others? Is he unjust and not like God or is he correct and much like God. Maybe even the people who refused and went about their
business already knew the answer to that question reason they did not come or maybe they are just as unjust. Brings to mind "Lord, Lord..." scripture. Mayhaps as I thought this
time round Jesus is saying what if I were that King or like him.
One way to look at the Savior's story might be to recognize how easy it is for us to pat our own self on the back when we think we are ok in a Jesus story and neglect to see how it
would be when that story were about us or someone else. This is exactly, big probably, when it is about us.