Let’s say we’re supposedly good friends and I told you I’m coming over.
Then let’s say your response is, ”Oh, I hope you don’t right now.”
So I ask you why?
You tell me you’re too busy. You have a lot of plans.
So I ask, “Well when should I come?”
You say, “How about when I’m on my deathbed. “
This happens every day with people who declare they are Christians and that Christ is the most
important person in their lives.
Yet Christ says I will return for my Church…. my love.
So is the correct answer from His love supposed to be , “Ah, I’m not ready for that? Also things are going to well down here, can we put that off?”
The Lord is coming back and if someone doesn’t want Him to show up because they are too busy with their worldly life, I don’t think that’s going to be a good thing at all. It’s totally the Lord’s call, but I know I can visualize that scenario and I don’t want to be in that camp.
This may have been referring to the Jewish people at the time, but how much worse for the Church who should now have learned from it.
Luke 14: 16-23- 16 Jesus replied: “A certain man was preparing a great banquet and invited many guests. 17 At the time of the banquet he sent his servant to tell those who had been invited, ‘Come, for everything is now ready.’ 18 “But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said, ‘I have just bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please excuse me.’ 19 “Another said, ‘I have just bought five yoke of oxen, and I’m on my way to try them out. Please excuse me.’ 20 “Still another said, ‘I just got married, so I can’t come.’
21 “The servant came back and reported this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and ordered his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring in the poor, the
crippled, the blind and the lame.’ 22 “‘Sir,’ the servant said, ‘what you ordered has been done, but there is still room.’
23 “Then the master told his servant, ‘Go out to the roads and country lanes and make them come in, so that my house will be full. 24 I tell you, not one of those men who were invited will get a taste of my banquet.’”
There are so many constant warnings for us in the Word. Study it regularly.