FAITH CAPSULE: Your excuses before God will deny your heaven.
Luke 14
When you begin to have a reasonable excuse for yourself, to keep you at a distance from God that is never far but near, you deny God in your life.
For example, the excuse of one sound as praying to God for a child and now have children from God but not have time to seek God in turn. Does that sound like you?
The challenge is, God has sent for all, but all set off from Him.
God sent His word to heal and to deliver all from destruction, the doing of wickedness. Psalm 107:20 records: “He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.”
Jesus, the living word of God, came as sent to give life abundantly, but the majority are occupied by the world with no room to be occupied by the living word of God. John 10:10 records to admonish all: “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly.”
Jesus word spoke to the truth that He came, but not that He is yet to come.
God has sent for all, but the majority set off from Him.
God has sent for all, He called all, He invited all, but many did not answer to His invitation.
By your way of living life, have you answered to His invitation?
The challenge is that the world occupies the majority to take the majority away with their excuses not to answer the invitation of God.
The parable of the great supper, by Jesus, teaches a spiritual lesson regarding the invitation of God.
Luke 14:16-24 documents: “Then He said to him, “A certain man gave a great supper and invited many, 17 and sent his servant at supper time to say to those who were invited, ‘Come, for all things are now ready.’ 18 But they all with one accord began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a piece of ground, and I must go and see it. I ask you to have me excused.’ 19 And another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to test them. I ask you to have me excused.’ 20 Still another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.’ 21 So that servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor and the [f]maimed and the lame and the blind.’ 22 And the servant said, ‘Master, it is done as you commanded, and still there is room.’ 23 Then the master said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. 24 For I say to you that none of those men who were invited shall taste my supper.’”
There is no reasonable excuse before God but will deny one not see God eternally.
Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you against the excuse not to miss heaven.