Luke 14:15-24
15 One of his fellow guests on hearing this said to him, "Blessed is the one who will dine in the kingdom of God."
16 He replied to him, "A man gave a great dinner to which he invited many.
17 When the time for the dinner came, he dispatched his servant to say to those invited, 'Come, everything is now ready.'
18 But one by one, they all began to excuse themselves. The first said to him, 'I have purchased a field and must go to examine it; I ask you, consider me excused.'
19 And another said, 'I have purchased five yoke of oxen and am on my way to evaluate them; I ask you, consider me excused.'
20 And another said, 'I have just married a woman, and therefore I cannot come.'
21 The servant went and reported this to his master. Then the master of the house in a rage commanded his servant, 'Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring in here the poor and the crippled, the blind and the lame.'
22 The servant reported, 'Sir, your orders have been carried out and still there is room.'
23 The master then ordered the servant, 'Go out to the highways and hedgerows and make people come in that my home may be filled.
24 For, I tell you, none of those men who were invited will taste my dinner.'"
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How often am I like the guests who excuse themselves from the dinnner? How often do I put worldly things in front of Christ? How often does my King invite me to be with him, and I find something different to do? Am I willing to look deeply into my own heart and truthfully answer that question?
