Today, I am reading and commenting on Luke 14-16.

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When Jesus tells the parable of the great banquet in today’s passage, he mentions that all of the invited guests have excuses as to why they cannot come to the banquet.  For the most part, these excuses seem to be poor reasons to pass up a great party which you knew was coming up.  They seem to be poor reasons to pass up the kingdom of heaven.  Then it struck me, these excuses resemble the reasons we find for passing on opportunities we have to serve those around us who have needs. “I’m sorry, I can’t give you a ride to your doctor’s appointment because I have scheduled a delivery that day.” “I’m sorry, I can’t provide a meal that week because I will be away on vacation.”  They seem like good reasons to us, but would we offer those if we saw serving those in need as entering into the kingdom of heaven?  If we saw serving those in need as an opportunity to serve Jesus?  We need to think a little harder about the opportunities we have to serve others.  In light of what I wrote yesterday. we need to recognize that opportunities to serve others are opportunities to partake in the kingdom of heaven.  Which sheds a whole new light on the next part of the passage where Jesus talks about counting the cost of following Him.  Are we willing, even eager, to give up our routine commitments in order to serve “the least of these”?

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.