Many are Invited, But Few are Chosen
By Christelle Lee
October 15, 2017
October 15, 2017
Weddings are big thing. Throwback to when Prince William and Duchess Catherine got married, the whole world was watching and people from different countries paid to get into that wedding just to witness it happened and to be part of that event; so, the parable was a bit confusing as it was the king who invited people to join the wedding feast and yet was just rejected by most men and so later on the king orders his servants to go and invite anyone to join the feast. I mean anyone like literally people on the pavements that were probably just living their usual lives, people that probably just was off to dinner, people just in general, people that could have been either be naughty or nice. Later on, the king arrives and sees the guests but one man particularly stood out because he was not wearing wedding garments and so the kind was furious and had his servants tie the man’s foot and hands, thrown outside in the dark. Parable is concluded with,
”For many are invited, but few are chosen.”
For me, the parable speaks of my relationship with God. I think, it talks of, not just mine, but our relationship God. It seems to me that the invitation is an invitation for all of us who are by the pavements figuring our lives out, or in a crisis, or stuck in a situation in life. I think that the invitation is God inviting us to the good things that his kingdom offers. We are all invited but just like how it was in the parable, at first we reject it. It’s funny and odd that we reject God’s invitation towards something good and yet we accept the invitation of those naughty things, and maybe because sometimes doing the naughty things gives us thrill at the moment but often times it leads us to harm and so we have this feeling of regret because we rejected the invitation. Then we get another invitation and some of accept this time, some of us don’t. God inviting us seems a little bit off and all those just as how for example if you were invited to the Royal wedding but unlike the Royal wedding in which we all have to watch through a telly, God’s invitation to us something offered to us individually and at a close proximity and we just have to accept. The parable does not make sense at first because who in the right mind would reject an invitation to a feast from a king? But as we delve into it closer, we see that we are actually, or at least we all have at some point, rejected the invitation but it stands for whenever we are ready to accept it.
I cannot understand why we reject it but I think that maybe because at some point we feel unworthy to be part of something prestigious and good like an invitation to join the kingdom of God. It won’t be odd if we do feel like that, we are all sinners after all like we do not deserve to be in a feast with someone or something so pure and so beautiful and so genuine, but it is an offer made by God himself and I think it speaks volumes that it doesn’t matter if we are sinners as long as we are willing to change our ways and accept the goodness and love that he offers us.
”For many are invited, but few are chosen.”
For me, the parable speaks of my relationship with God. I think, it talks of, not just mine, but our relationship God. It seems to me that the invitation is an invitation for all of us who are by the pavements figuring our lives out, or in a crisis, or stuck in a situation in life. I think that the invitation is God inviting us to the good things that his kingdom offers. We are all invited but just like how it was in the parable, at first we reject it. It’s funny and odd that we reject God’s invitation towards something good and yet we accept the invitation of those naughty things, and maybe because sometimes doing the naughty things gives us thrill at the moment but often times it leads us to harm and so we have this feeling of regret because we rejected the invitation. Then we get another invitation and some of accept this time, some of us don’t. God inviting us seems a little bit off and all those just as how for example if you were invited to the Royal wedding but unlike the Royal wedding in which we all have to watch through a telly, God’s invitation to us something offered to us individually and at a close proximity and we just have to accept. The parable does not make sense at first because who in the right mind would reject an invitation to a feast from a king? But as we delve into it closer, we see that we are actually, or at least we all have at some point, rejected the invitation but it stands for whenever we are ready to accept it.
I cannot understand why we reject it but I think that maybe because at some point we feel unworthy to be part of something prestigious and good like an invitation to join the kingdom of God. It won’t be odd if we do feel like that, we are all sinners after all like we do not deserve to be in a feast with someone or something so pure and so beautiful and so genuine, but it is an offer made by God himself and I think it speaks volumes that it doesn’t matter if we are sinners as long as we are willing to change our ways and accept the goodness and love that he offers us.