Come to the Wedding

Can you imagine being invited to a wedding (No gifts please), where the food has been lovingly and lavishly prepared by God Himself?  Can you even fathom how exquisite the place settings would be and how beautifully all the food would be presented?  Talk about art and beauty.  Think of the aromas, and the brilliance of the silver place settings, and the heavenly music.  

Can you imagine saying no because you have to milk your cows?  Or work on your business ledger?  Would you rip up the invitation, or worse yet, kill the mailman because of your anger at being invited to such a feast?  

And yet, that is what many of the Jews did who were invited to the wedding feast of the Lamb; they were given first dibs and they responded in anger.  Unfathomable, isn't it?  And so, we Gentiles, "strangers to the covenant of promise" (Ephesians 2:12) have been invited as well.  And not just invited, but freely given the appropriate garments to wear, "robes of righteousness" (Isaiah 61:10) so we too might not be cast out.  

And what are these robes of righteousness?  "For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God" (2 Corinthians 5:21).  Are you appropriately dressed for the feast?  Are you living as though you are so dressed?  Is His righteousness spilling out of you and spreading an aroma of a coming wedding feast?  

Read more of the grand feast in Revelation 19:6-10.  And say with the angel: "Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb."