The Parable of the Wedding Feast (Mt 22:1-14) continues to "hit home" today as much as it did when Jesus first told it. The invitation to share a feast with God, whether it be at Sunday Eucharist or Worship, or to closer intimacy with God through prayer, or to more generous giving of our time or finances in the service of others, is always on the table, but our terrible, terrifying freedom leaves the choice up to us. How many times do we find it easier to slither away with some excuse (usually a lame one), reject the invitation and deprive ourselves of one great opportunity after another? We rely on God's infinite patience and mercy but also risk the possibility of being cast into the darkness, "where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth." (Mt 11:14). A fearful image, but sometimes fear is needed to move our sluggish engines into positive motion. If we can spend hours, week after week, pasting hard-to-find stickers on Publisher's Clearing House forms, in the mostly futile hope of winning a million dollars a day for the rest of our lives. can't we find the time to RSVP affirmatively to God's invitation where so much more is promised?
Bro. Rene
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