Love and the wedding feast


Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 1 Corinthians 13:4‭-‬10 ESV https://bible.com/bible/59/1co.13.4-10.ESV

This is a description of love in human terms but it is also the way that God loves us except that His love is truly unconditional. In the parable of the wedding feast where this king has prepared a wedding feast for his son’s wedding, Jesus said that all of those who were invited refused to come. So, the king sent his servants out and found people who would come to the wedding feast. Now, the king had told them to go out into the streets and the highways and find people who were willing to come to the feast. But…in order for them to attend the wedding feast, they had to put on wedding clothes.

Many of them, in fact, most of them did put on the wedding clothes that they were given. Garments of pure white. All of them except one. When he was noticed, the king said to bind him and cast him out. Why? Because he didn’t put on the garments that were offered to him to be there. Some use this parable to say that God doesn’t want us to come as we are but He does. His servants in this parable brought the people into the feast just as they were but they had to put on their wedding clothes. The wedding clothes symbolize the righteousness of Jesus Christ that we accept when we accept Him as our Savior. Without His righteousness covering our sinfulness and all of our sins, we wouldn’t be allowed into Heaven.

We are called and chosen just as we are, warts and blemishes and scars included but when we accept Jesus as our Savior we are clothed in His righteousness. So when God looks at us, He sees His Son’s righteousness covering us so we are allowed into the banquet. Jesus does call those who are flawed and sinful to be His servants and His followers in this world because those who believe that their “righteousness” is good enough don’t believe that they need Him. Like the man who didn’t put on the wedding clothes, they believe that their “righteous” clothes are good enough.

Make sure you have your wedding clothes on.

Put your faith in the Lord


What have you sown?


It is in prophecy that there will be many false teachers during the last days. Whether many believe it or not, we are living in the last days before the Tribulation. The Truth of God’s Word is that which should be preached in these days, not teachings of men or “ideas” or “visions” that someone claims to have. God’s Word is the Truth and it is that which saves you from the punishment for sins. Not just reading it or hearing it but seeking the Savior in it and becoming a follower of His and not just a hearer but a person who does what God’s Words asks of him.

Go and tell others of the salvation brought to you and bought for you by the blood of Jesus. This life of ours is fleeting and very short compared to eternity. Make sure of your place in eternity because once this life is over you don’t get a “pass” or a “do-over”. The choice that you make in this life, even up to the day of your death, are what determines your eternal place. It will either be in torment because you rejected Jesus or it will be in Heaven because you accepted His call to be one of His disciples and followers.

Some even preach that you can claim your rewards now in this life. To a certain extent that may be true, if you are asking according to God’s will for your life and for an actual “need” in your life. God doesn’t grant wishes like some genie. He only gives to us those things which will enable us to be useful to Him and His Kingdom and bring Him glory. Those who claim to have millions and fame for themselves from God I would question their true relationship with Him. God does not share the throne with us. The only One Who sits next to the Father is His Son.

We who are saved by His grace and His call on us have the third Person of the Trinity living with us, the Holy Spirit of God. He agrees with our Spirit to ask for those needs that we have whether they are for healing or for our ability to do God’s will in this life. God knows the ones that He has called to be His own and He knows who has accepted that calling. Make sure of your calling and what you are doing for Him by prayer and fasting and by reading His Word. This is the only way to know for sure what you are sowing into eternity.

God’s unchanging love


I will rejoice!


So much to do…


Does it seem like time is speeding up to you? It’s been feeling that way for me for a long time. Ever since my son was born the days and months just began to run together and one year went by and then every year since then has picked up speed…at least to me it seems. It seems that since he got married that time has even picked up a little bit more. This year has just sprouted wings! It feels like it was January 1st just a few weeks ago! We’re almost into April now. My birthdays get here way too quickly now so things need to slow down a bit!

I know this is just the way life is but sometimes I wonder how Adam or Methuselah could live so long and the years just seem to go by so fast. I’m only sixty years old and I used to think that someone that age was OLD!

There does seem to be so much to do and yet the time is just slipping away so fast. The time that we are living in right now is on the edge of the Tribulation. We aren’t there yet but when the church is taken up with those who have already died knowing Jesus as their Savior…it will begin. All of the things that are foretold in the book of Revelation will start to happen and it will happen FAST! I pray that you won’t waste the time that you have right now because we are not guaranteed to have tomorrow. If you don’t know Jesus as your Savior, please seek Him soon! You can still become a Christian after the church is gone but you will be persecuted for being His and likely killed too.

Be kind during this rough time we’re in…


Give your cares to God


Work for God in your life


For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. James 2:26 KJV https://bible.com/bible/1/jas.2.26.KJV

We’re not required to work for Him, we do it because of what He did for us. God loves us long before we even knew about Him. We should spread His Love into everything that we do and say.

You can find the Lord if you will seek Him!