Dine with me!

Dine with me! 

I was thinking of a friend today as I wrote this blog.  How many times in scripture does Christ ask us to dine with Him?  

"Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears and listens to and heeds My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will eat with him, and he [will eat] with Me."  Revelations 3:20

Who is God expecting in the Kingdom at His table?  Is this a question easily answered?  Who would we expect at the table of a president or King or the highest dignitaries of this world?  Those of the upper class, those with an abundance of financial wealth, dignitaries, and others of important status, right?  

Christ mentioned in Luke chapter 14, if you accept my invitation, it is YOU who are invited to dine with me.  When He sat at the table with the Pharisees and lawyers, He told the Host of the party that the wrong guests had been invited!  Can you imagine what the Host must of thought!  Each man proudly sitting at their proposed place of Honor.   He went on to say that it was the poor, the crippled, the lame and blind He wanted to have fellowship with. 

In Romans 3:2 When the dinner hour came God sent his messenger John the Baptist to extend the invitation to come, but the Jewish leaders made excuses and did not come?  So the Lord expanded His invitation to the "outcast of Israel"!    

Many of the prostitutes, tax collectors and other notorious sinners responded to God’s invitation and were following Jesus. And so the invitation goes still wider, outside the “city limits” of Judaism, to the Gentiles who are out in the highways and along the hedges (14:23). At His great banquet the Lord will have a great multitude which no one can count from every nation and tribe and people and tongue (Rev. 7:9).

The question is, are you going to accept His invitation to sit at His table?  Or will you continue to make excuses? 

Heart Homework - Galatians chapter 3