Weekly Devotion: Dressed for the Occasion
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Sometimes we have to dress for the occasion.
I love dressing up on special occasions like weddings. I can remember my late father who had suits upon suits all for going to church. If he was going to go to church he was going to look his best.
Today’s text is well, it’s hard to accept, let alone understand. We have a king that invites people to a wedding and those invited don’t want to go. Some are so adamant against going that they kill the servants bringing the message, which leads the king to go and kill them. He then tells the servants to go and invite people off the street, the good and the bad. Now, that should be the end of the story, and reading the counterpart in Luke, that is the end of the story. But Matthew keeps going. The king finds someone not wearing the proper clothes for the event. He is thrown out for not wearing the right things.
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-Dennis Sanders, pastor