In reading the Parable of the Great Supper

In reading the Parable of the Great Supper (Luke 14:1-24) I was pondering how this is more than just a parable teaching us to feed and care for those who cannot pay us back. (Though that thought alone needs to be implemented in many lives of those who say they follow Christ.) One of the other lessons this parable teaches is that God's table is open to the "blind and the lame, and still there was room. Then the master sent the servant to the country places near by to bring in the poor people who had not been invited." God's table is abundant, His grace is rich and He offers it to all who will hear and believe. As God's servant, are you inviting the spiritually blind, the emotionally lame, the outcast, the poor in morals, and the broken hearted to come and feast on God's grace? Those people you see in your everyday life- the very ones who are the most "un-churchlike"- those are who you are to extend God's love and grace to the most! We are to throw open the doors to God's banquet hall so that all who want may enter, learn of His goodness and feast on His mercy! Are you inviting people in, or keeping them out?

God's grace be with you,
Fr. Charles Butler