From: TBN Family Media <promotions@familymedia.tv>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:13:34 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Word For Today - #254
To: bliss formula <blissformula@gmail.com>
LOVE'S COMPULSION
"Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that
my house may be filled."-- Luke 14:23.
WE CAN never estimate the yearning love of God for the souls of men.
He sees us absorbed with farming and industry; business and pleasure;
with our homes and family-life, and knows that these will all pass
away, as a dream before the first touch of eternity. With intense
passion He desires that we shall be really satisfied with abiding
joys.
The Feast that He spreads is abundant and ready (Isa_25:6;
Isa_55:1-2). A banquet is a happy-making time. As the guests sit
together, there is the brilliant flow of conversation, the sparkle of
laughter, the enjoyment of the good things provided, the interchange
of friendship and fellowship.
Everything that a feast stands for God is waiting to give us. "He
gives us richly all things to enjoy." How strange it is that men,
mocked by the Evil One, are cajoled into forfeiting their places at
the banqueting table, which God has spread for them!
The Jewish people were first bidden, but they were too much occupied
with material things to respond to the gracious invitation. The
excuses offered were shallow and stupid; the real reason lies much
deeper, in the disinclination of the soul to arouse itself to lay hold
of the life which is life indeed! But God's purpose of Love cannot be
defeated (Luk_13:28-30; Act_13:45-48).
"Go out into the highways and hedges.'" Here is our work as His
servants! The high-roads, along which the streams of commerce and
pleasure, weddings and funerals, statesmen and business men, young men
and women, housewives and children--are constantly passing! The
hedgerows are the quiet sequestered lanes of the country-side, now
covered with spring flowers, and again with autumn tints. The
up-to-date motor car, or the slow-jogging country waggon are symbols
of different modes of life, but the souls that use them alike need the
message of Good News. Let us go forth and constrain them to come in
that our Master's House may be filled!
PRAYER
Blessed Lord, have mercy upon those who reject the invitation of Thy
Love! Take from us all ignorance, hardness of heart, and contempt of
Thy Word; and so fetch us home, dear Lord, to Thy flock, that we may
be saved, and become one flock under the Great Shepherd of souls.
AMEN.
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