Jesus' Marriage Feast

Matthew 22
9 Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.

This parable of the marriage feast finds Jesus teaching about a world we know only too well. And he provides us, all of us, with an invitation. We know, however, that too few of us accept this invitation. Too few respond to this holy call to redemption. And the parable concludes:

Matthew 22
14 For many are called, but few are chosen.

This is an evil world. But I am comforted by both God's saving grace and also the truth I find in the Bible. Here is a verse from Paul that echos Jesus parable of the marriage feast:

Romans 8
29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover, whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

And so, I look around, and I see the sad truth. This is an evil world full of lost souls. And we Christians are, in the end, but a small remnant.

It is a cool, damp, dreary morning. And it is drizzling. It is going to be a long commute.