The Feast~ Part III

Why is God's son/daughter rummaging through the dumpster?

Hear that!?! You are God's child, His beloved, the apple of His eye. No matter what you've done in the past, the lies you've believed, the sins you've committed, the times you've failed the King. You are STILL his child!

Each minute, each hour, each week, each month and each year Almighty God is inviting you to a Feast. What is the Feast? Him! The beauty of the Lord is you can have as much of Him as you want or you can have as little due to free will.

How many of us Christians, people who are arrogant enough to call ourselves followers (when often we ONLY follow our own selfish desires), get by on scraps? We will read JUST ENOUGH scripture, pray JUST ENOUGH, go to church JUST ENOUGH, listen to God JUST ENOUGH. There are MANY believers, who just 'go through the motions.' We will go to church every Sunday, pray at night and maybe listen to an inspirational song from time to time. . . and yet we never get to intimately know the One we are 'performing' for.

Christianity is not about performance . . . it is relationship. Sure faith without works is dead (James 2:20), but it's only through unmerited favor, unconditional love and relentless mercy we are called His children. It's not about what you're doing; it's about WHY you are doing it! 'You believe that there is only one God. You do well. Even the demons believe-- and tremble!' (James 2:19).

He wants as much of us as we are willing to give Him. He wants us to have more joy, more contentment, to fill us up with knowledge, wisdom, faith, love, compassion, but we can not have this deep satisfaction apart from Him.

So, the analogy of digging through the garbage to find enough to eat is symbolic of how we believe the king's attendant. Remember? 'The King no longer wishes for you to sit there and because of what you've done he no longer wants your presence at His feast.' That's a LIE!

What the devil doesn't want you to know is Jesus' grace covers it ALL. All the times you've been disobedient, operated out of your own selfish desires, all the times you ate the attendant's candy, chosen counterfeit over real, are not only forgiven by the King, but they are wiped from His memory (Isaiah 43:25 'I, even I, am He who blots out your trangressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sin no more!' Is that not unbelievable and extremely encouraging!?!

He still wants the abundant life for you (John 10:10). What's the abundant life? It's simple really. HIM. Knowing Him, Him knowing you, worshiping Him, loving on Him, letting the Creator of the Universe love you . . . that's the life more abundantly! I was, you were (maybe still are) that one sheep (Matthew 18:12) who has wondered away from the flock.

We only know the King because He wanted to know us first. He pursued us first. We were lost, He came to find us. Before we even knew how lost we were, He had already set out on his search to find us. That's how much He loves each one of us! Conventional wisdom says why would you leave 99 in search of one . . . guess what? Our God's love is anything but conventional! It's radical, it's powerful, it's transforming, it's unmerited-- NONE of us deserve it, so embrace it, quit trying to understand how it works!!

He still wants your fellowship, your presence, your love, Jesus wants YOU-- your soul, your heart, your time, your gifts, your talents, your very life!

'But not the King. He is, at this point, sobbing unbeknownst to his guests.'

God, the King, grieves for the lost, unbelievers, it breaks His heart. Yet many of us Christians either aren't affected by that or just don't care. We are surrounded by people, who are going hell, every single day and we don't ever say a word with our actions, with our mouth or with either.

'What's the King doing? He's left the feast. In His sorrow, he assembled a search party. Who are they looking for? YOU!'

'The guests don't even notice He's gone.'

We are sadly content-- no not all of us-- on just having the King's food. As long as we have His blessings in our life, which are not bad with perspective, some of us don't even notice the King is gone. Sure, we still believe, but we have turned His blessings, and gifts and talents, into idols. We may say we give God the glory, but our actions do not reflect it. We ONLY give ourselves, our loved ones, our possessions glory that should be, first and foremost, reserved for the KING!

I don't know about you, but the cry of my heart is to be the first one at the table to realize when the King's gone . . . when He's left the table. When areas of my life do not reflect His love, His mercy, His forgiveness and grace. When appearance-wise I may look like a Superman Christian, but in my heart the King is no longer on the throne. When I am doing good things, but I'm missing the Giver of Good while I'm doing them. When I no longer have a burden to want to be used to reach the lost with Jesus Christ, King Yeshua. When I no longer want to tithe to the church/Lord (because, if I do, I won't be able to pay my bills). When I have lost the desire to give to those less fortunate than me.

You are in a far away land, you have received an invitation from the King . . . will you answer it with a yes?

If so, pray this prayer~ I confess I'm a sinner. I confess I need a Savior. I'm asking you Jesus to come into my heart right now. I want you to be my God, my Savior, my Best Friend, my Teacher, my HOPE and Guide. I bind up satan in the precious blood of Jesus. I know I will fall down sometimes and I know that everyday from this day forth you will be with me through the good, through the bad and through the ugly. Thank you. It's in your name I pray AMEN