January 20, 2015
Banquet Invitation
My brother-in-law called for
the elders to pray and lay on hands, but the suggested time on Monday conflicted
with his schedule so alternative days were suggested. While this is a
grief-type situation, I had to laugh at the absurdity that even in life and
death situations, we still want everything to revolve around our own schedule.
Jesus told the parable of a great banquet where many guests were invited.
However, all those invited began to
make excuses such as having just bought a field, purchased oxen and gotten
married (Luke 14:15-24). While the parable is an illustration of the Jews
rejecting God’s invitation, it also reminds me that throughout our Christian walk
we have spiritual invitations — and many of us make excuses.
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Gail;
-----If it hadn’t been a grief situation I would have wondered what was wrong with co-coordinating schedules. It is a busy life, and all. But usually grief holds precedent at the top of the schedule until an understanding develops in which life can move back into joy. Even eating gets forestalled, if grief is done wisely. And God’s ancient people accelerated the process by putting on some scratchy, sackcloth duds, sitting down in a heap of ashes and throwing it all over themselves. It’s like there is a certain amount of emotion that must be expressed in grief. It can be expressed in lower intensity over a longer time, or we can just do a high intensity blow up and get it over quickly. The ancient’s schedules were more critical than ours. They had to tend the necessities of life more regularly because they did not have this mass of technology we have excusing us from duty over longer stretches of time. So, they fasted, went outside, sack clothed and ashed up, and got it over with. Then they went back to their schedules.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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