Invitation to a wedding (4) - All The Good Seed Daily Devotionals for 2025

Then he (the king) said to his servants, The wedding is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy. Therefore go into the highways, and as many as you find, invite to the wedding. So those servants went out into the highways and gathered together all whom they found, both bad and good. And the wedding hall was filled with guests.
Matthew 22:8-10.

Invitation to a wedding (4)
The king has still not cancelled the wedding. He wanted to celebrate it, but with whom? The guests first invited proved to be unworthy: they refused the invitation, ignored it, some even reacted with violence.

The servants were then sent to invite whoever they found. They set off and invited people in the streets of the town. The hall for the wedding reception was quickly filled with guests. The marriage could then be celebrated to the joy of the king and the honour of his son.

The people of Israel had enjoyed a particular privilege. Since the exodus from Egypt they stood in a special relationship to the one true God and were prepared for the coming of the Redeemer. So the gospel was first preached to them. But when they rejected the Redeemer and His teaching, the gospel was taken to the heathen nations. Then those who had been without "hope and without God in the world" (Ephesians 2:12.13) could be saved (cf. Acts 13:46).

All had been invited, whether wicked (from people's point of view), like the crucified criminal, or good, like the Roman centurion Cornelius. It is no different today: we can all come, whatever our profession or status. Do we really want to? How important is it to us?

(to be continued on Monday)

Today's reading: Job 29:1-25 · Acts 14:1-18