Tag: wedding garment

• Matthew 22:1-14: The Wedding Feast

  
  

  Matthew 22:1-14: The Wedding Feast

  Sunday, August 4, 2019 

  

  When I was a child, each time I heard this parable I thought the king to be a bit harsh.  How was the man tossed into the night to know that he should have dressed up for the party?  Hadn’t he been halted on his way down the road of life and invited suddenly to the Wedding?  Now as an adult I understand that the point of this story is about being prepared always.    It is about going about life as if each day holds an invitation for the Wedding.  It is about rising each morning knowing that we are called.  It is about taking the time each morning to put on the wedding garment before I step across my threshold into the world.  It is about checking the garment for readiness several times a day.  It is about laying out that garment each night as I go to my bed . . . in preparation for dinning the next day.

  Christ is constantly prepared to receive us.  God the Father is constantly guiding and protecting us.  The Holy Spirit is constantly abiding and comforting us.  Can I not be constantly mindful of these great gifts of being called . . . being protected . . . being loved?

  May we never be reduced to silence as is the guest in today’s parable.

  May we always be ready and willing to go to the feast.

  May we always strive for constancy . . . just as our God is always constant with us.

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  Image from: http://abcdfinnestad.blogspot.com/2010/06/parable-of-wedding-feast.html

  Written on July 14, 2008 and posted today as a Favorite.  For more on The Wedding Feast, click on the image above or go to: http://abcdfinnestad.blogspot.com/2010/06/parable-of-wedding-feast.html

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  August 4, 2019

  Christ, constancy, preparation, wedding garment

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