Imagine this with me for a moment:
You are visiting Washington, D.C. wandering outside the White House. The President happens to be holding a magnificent ball where the worlds' most powerful are to be drinking cocktails and shooting the breeze about whatever rich and famous shoot the breeze about. Everyone from prime ministers, to princes, to pop stars are to be in attendance.
However, you notice that there seems to be no one around. The party is a bust. The president's ball is nearly vacant. You and your family recently spent up some savings to take the kids on a great vacation to the capitol. You don't have much more money to do much more cool stuff, so you wander around aimlessly at all the free attractions.
As you are thinking over the flight back home to your seemingly insignificant life in your seemingly insignificant house at your seemingly insignificant job. Just then, a gentleman in a black suit walks up to your family... Did your kid pee on another statue?! You are certain you have somehow desecrated some national monument or stumbled on some grass that is not meant to be walked on.
However, he politely asks if you and your family would like to come to the ball room at the White House, compliments of the Prez. After you stagger and stammer at the thought of meeting Chuck Norris and Kofi Annan in the same room, you and your family quickly say yes and begin to run to the car to get to the hotel room to get in your best clothes! The secret service agent politely interrupts and explains there is no time and to come along now! You ask how your family got invited to the amazing gathering.
The gentlemen explains that many of the distinguished and important folks invited did not show up... in fact most of those who are supposed to be the most important declined the invite. So the President asked to have normal people, like you, to come in, because there is still room.
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Believe it or not, Jesus thinks you are worth the invite. While many of the best of the best decline His love and invitation to feast with Him in the Kingdom of Heaven, we will probably be shocked to find that it is us normal folk who will be gathered around. Us misfits and broken up people.
Jesus went out of His way to make sure the seemingly insignificant realized that they were worth everything to Him. You see, He would rather go through death and Hell for you than to go back to Heaven without you, and He did just that.
He is whispering to us day in and day out, every moment of every day, "There is still room at my table for you."
He said it to the harlot, the leper, and the sinner. The thief and the sexually immoral often learned it better than the church people. Those who experience His love and forgiveness in the greatest ways often are able to give it away in the greatest ways.
So, are you feeling dumb? Ugly? Stupid? Unworthy? Too sinful? Then Jesus has some great news for you today from Revelation 3:20...
Look at me. I stand at the door. I knock. If you hear me call and open the door, I’ll come right in and sit down to supper with you. Conquerors will sit alongside me at the head table, just as I, having conquered, took the place of honor at the side of my Father. That’s my gift to the conquerors!_____
Check out Luke 14 (click here)
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