April 11, 2024 – Who’s On The Invitations List?

Who’s On The Invitations List?
April 11, 2024

DAILY PROVERB:

Proverbs 9:1-5
Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table. She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city, Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.

OUTLOOK ON THE IN BOOK:

    If you want to host a party, what’s the first thing you need to do? You probably need to estimate how many people will attend to ensure you have enough food and space for everyone. To do this, you create a guest list. Now, you have to decide whom to invite. Perhaps you’ll invite your closest friends and relatives, or maybe just some of your closest friends, as relatives can sometimes add an interesting dynamic to social gatherings.

    In any case, you try to estimate the number of attendees. How do you do that? Do you send an invitation to every living person in the world and prepare for them all to come? That’s probably not a practical idea for most events. However, in today’s text, that is precisely what Wisdom has done.

    Wisdom has dispatched her maidens to invite people from far and wide. Can’t you just picture them on a high perch, shouting, “Anyone who wishes to attend Wisdom’s banquet is welcome. This includes everyone, even the simple.” Today, we might use phrases like, “Even the homeless, poor, and those in pain. Even those who feel unworthy, sinful, and wicked. Those who believe they have no hope, you’re all invited to join.”

    Jesus has been calling people from all over the world to come to Him for a long time. Who might choose not to attend? Often, it’s those who feel too prideful and arrogant to be seen with the suffering of the world, and thus, they might decline. However, by missing out on God’s best because they think they are too good to associate with a lost and suffering world, they themselves become part of the lost and suffering world.

     

THE WORD WALKING IN ME:

    Jesus is still calling, but who are these maidens? They would be all of us who know Jesus. Let’s shout it from the housetops. “Come and dine the Master calleth come and dine.”

Who might you invite to the feast God has prepared?

IF YOU ARE JOURNALING:

Ask yourself, what are MY THOUGHTS concerning this Passage, and todays Devotion?

Do I find within this reading a CHALLENGE for my life?

What are one or two things I WILL DO today or this week to accept that CHALLENGE?

  

GOD TALKING TO ME: APRIL 11, 2024

THROUGH THE BIBLE WITH A DAILY PROVERBS
    2 Samuel 1-4
   Proverbs 9:1-5

THROUGH THE BIBLE OLD & NEW TESTAMENT DAILY
    Judges 1-2
    Luke 10:25-42