SEPTEMBER 01 THE JESUS QUESTIONS
JQ#27
“Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment?”
(Matthew 22:12)
LIVING FOR JESUS Daily Prayer
JESUS, the world without You is a sad thing — my life without You is
worthless and has no meaning — Lord I can see much clearer now
how differently my day goes when I am letting You live through me
than when I try to go through the world on my own strength
and understanding — Lord it is becoming a “no brainer” for me and
yesterday when I in my arrogance thought I would “go to war” with
the worldly forces that I knew were going to attack, all I ended up
with was “war”, but when I yielded my arrogance to Your Humility
and let Your Peace enter into my dealings with the world and its
war then the battlefield became a walk in the park and
“Your Joy and Peace” returned to my daily walk and I knew You
had returned my steps back to Your Path of Righteousness —
Lord Jesus, all I can do is Praise and Thank You and pray that
each encounter with the world will more quickly be resolved from
“war with the world” into “peace with God”!!!
{{The Holy Spirit says to my soul—}}
“The world is passing away, and the lust of it;
but he who does the will of God abides forever.”
(1 John 2:17)
AMEN
THE JESUS QUESTIONS
Jesus is indeed “Masterful” in using circumstance to “Teach” and
once Jesus begins a Lesson we must “hang on every word” for
Jesus never used words or circumstances lightly and there never
was a Teacher like Jesus and there never will be another Teacher
that can Teach any truth greater than the
“Truth of God”
that Jesus literally Taught not only with His Words,
but with His Perfect Life, and never will anyone ever
match the Death, Burial, and Resurrection that Jesus used to
“Teach God’s Truth” to a lost and dying world.
Jesus had just put together a sequence of 4 phrases that has a
huge message if the phrases had to stand alone by themselves as
a separate Lesson as Jesus taught in the 3rd Parable ———
{Phrase 6} “…the invited were not willing to come…”
{Phrase 7} [BUT] “…[the certain king] AGAIN…”
{Phrase 8} “…sent out other servants…” [TO]
{Phrase 9} “…tell the invited…”
which these 4 phrases by themselves reveal
God’s Merciful Character.
The Holy Scriptures are full of example after example of God
making provisions for His people and the people rejecting God
(and His “abundant life”)
[BUT GOD] after each “rejection” provides yet another
opportunity for His people to
“relent of their rejection” of God and REPENT
— at which point God Proves He is Forgiving and Faithful
as His Character of Mercy surfaces AGAIN and AGAIN!
One can look at each Phrase and see the Truth of God such as
{Phrase 6} “…the invited were not willing to come…”
reveals to us that God has done His part for
He has “invited” us to “Come”
but we judge ourselves because we the “invited”
pronounce our own sentence:
we know we are “invited”
[BUT]
we are “not willing to come” !?!
God has done His part in extending His “invitation” and we do not
listen to God and choose to live our lives independent of God
— How can we hope to be protected from the storms of life
if we refuse to get under the umbrella provided for us by God
to keep the world from raining down on us???
In {Phrase 7} “…again…” we cannot miss the fact God never
gives up on us (we only give up on God) then
{Phrase 8} + {Phrase 9} “…[the certain king after being rejected]
sent out other servants [to] tell the invited…”
What is interesting here looking at this sequence of phrases is that
not only did God try “again” but He also sends out
“other servants to tell the invited…[to COME]”
and we will see by looking at the rest of the phrases that there is
the same “invitation [from God] to come” but it is presented in a
slightly different way ——— God is trying everything so that He can
say when we stand face-to-face with God at the final judgement
that we will hear God say in His
“still small voice”
“I invited you AGAIN and AGAIN
but IT WAS YOU YOURSELF
THAT AGAIN and AGAIN REJECTED
My Invitation to “COME”
as many times as I gave it —
so you leave Me no choice —
if you don’t want Me in your life
then I will let you spend your eternity without Me,
if you don’t want to live My Way
then it will now and forever be ‘your way’
Enjoy your afterlife without Me
for I will not bother you any more!”
(Personally I find living without God for even part of my day is “hell”,
I could not imagine what an eternity without Him would be like ?!?!?!?!?!)
God is AGAIN inviting you
to a wedding feast and celebration,
what better thing do you have to do —
go get a wedding garment
and “come” to the feast while the invitation
is still being extended by the KING!!!
