Posted by: Bill Hornbeck | July 16, 2010

Astonishing Grace

Today’s devotion is Luke 14:12-14.
 
12  And He also went on to say to the one who had invited Him, “When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, otherwise they may also invite you in return and that will be your repayment. 
                                                             
 13  “But when you give a reception, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind,
                                                      

 14  and you will be blessed, since they do not have the means to repay you; for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”  Luke 14:12-14. 

It is hard for us, regular folk, to even imagine such a thing for even a plain potluck dinner.  “But when you give a reception, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind”.   

Now, think of a king.  Only a few of the top class of citizens of a kingdom get the privilege to be around him.  But, to be at a king’s feast, you have to be the very best.

So, what does our King of Kings do for His heavenly reception (the best party of all time)?  We will read just a few verses later in this same chapter of Luke 14 that He commands His slave:  ‘Go out at once into the streets and lanes of the city and bring in here the poor and crippled and blind and lame.’  Luke 14:23.


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