Listening Now
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I went to post this picture the other day, and as I was typing it, I had a message about Jesus come to mind. But I didn’t add it to my caption because I didn’t want to sit in the moment and try to work through whatever it was He was telling me to write. I just wanted to post about the outfit and move on.
Normally, I listen when He wants me to write something. Just like I’m listening now. But there are times when I am tired. There are times when I am scared. And there are times when I am down right selfish and ignore Him because hearing from Him might make things harder. Better, but harder.
Jesus used stories to teach about God’s love. I was recently reading in Matthew 22 about the parable of the wedding banquet when a verse kind of jumped out at me. The king was throwing a wedding banquet for his son. He invited people to the banquet, but they didn’t want to come. He said “I’ve prepared my dinner; my oxen and fattened cattle have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet”. But they still didn’t come. They ignored his request to celebrate with the king. When people finally did come to celebrate, the king asked a man why he wasn’t in wedding clothes and how he got there. The man was thrown out of the wedding as the king said, (and this is the verse that grabbed my attention) “For many are invited, but few are chosen.”
We are all invited to listen to God when He is trying to tell us something. We are all invited into a relationship with Him. But we have to decide if we want to work at it, grow with Him, seek Him and create a bond with Jesus that exceeds all other relationships. We are chosen as His children, but is that something we are ready to accept?
God is yearning to speak to you. He is inviting you into the greatest party ever planned. A party that offers wisdom, peace, and promise of a never ending love. So, let’s lean in and listen. Because here’s the thing, I can’t remember what He was trying to teach me when I first shared that picture. I hate that. I hate that I missed it. Here’s the other thing, I serve a God that offers grace, and He is offering it now and teaching me all over again.
Are you ready to listen?
