Come, For Everything is Now Ready
March/15/2008 Filed in: Daily Walk
Series
• New
Testament Reading: Luke 14:1-35
• Old Testament Passages: Genesis 6:11-22
• Points to Ponder
“Come, For Everything is Now Ready”
Being called to follow Jesus is like being invited to a wedding feast or a great banquet. God has done
all the work and paid the entire cost to make this celebration a reality. He’s been planning it since
before the beginning of time and he’s worked out all the details through the entire history of
mankind. Everything is now ready. All that is needed is for people to be invited. However, whoever
is invited can choose to accept or reject that invitation and if someone accepts it, he must come with
the right attitude. For those who reject his invitation, there are consequences. For those who
accept his invitation, there are expectations. It is not we who tell God who to invite or what to
expect from those who accept his invitation.
We should feel incredibly blessed and privileged to have been invited to this great banquet we call
Christian discipleship. That we have been chosen out of all the people in the world (at this point) to
even receive an invitation is mind-blowing and humbling. Who are we and what have we done to be
so blessed? So in accepting his invitation with equal humility and gratitude we must accept his
ongoing conditions and requirements of discipleship.
If you were invited to a great banquet put on by some person you respected, would you not feel
privileged? And if you accepted that invitation would you not expect to come based on the
expectations of the one hosting the banquet?
• Questions to Consider: Jesus says, “Give up everything you have and come follow me.”
Practically, what does that mean and look like in the real world in which we live? Based on your
response, how salty are you?
• Old Testament Passages: Genesis 6:11-22
• Points to Ponder
“Come, For Everything is Now Ready”
Being called to follow Jesus is like being invited to a wedding feast or a great banquet. God has done
all the work and paid the entire cost to make this celebration a reality. He’s been planning it since
before the beginning of time and he’s worked out all the details through the entire history of
mankind. Everything is now ready. All that is needed is for people to be invited. However, whoever
is invited can choose to accept or reject that invitation and if someone accepts it, he must come with
the right attitude. For those who reject his invitation, there are consequences. For those who
accept his invitation, there are expectations. It is not we who tell God who to invite or what to
expect from those who accept his invitation.
We should feel incredibly blessed and privileged to have been invited to this great banquet we call
Christian discipleship. That we have been chosen out of all the people in the world (at this point) to
even receive an invitation is mind-blowing and humbling. Who are we and what have we done to be
so blessed? So in accepting his invitation with equal humility and gratitude we must accept his
ongoing conditions and requirements of discipleship.
If you were invited to a great banquet put on by some person you respected, would you not feel
privileged? And if you accepted that invitation would you not expect to come based on the
expectations of the one hosting the banquet?
• Questions to Consider: Jesus says, “Give up everything you have and come follow me.”
Practically, what does that mean and look like in the real world in which we live? Based on your
response, how salty are you?