The Banquet

There will be weeping and chattering of teeth
when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob
and all the prophets in the kingdom of God,
and you yourselves thrown out.

And they will come from the East and West
and from the North and South
and sit at table in the kingdom of God.

And then there is Isaiah 25 where God sets down a fat banquet, a wine banquet. The people swallow the banquet and God swallows up death.

I just think this is incredible and intense. But I really wanted to write about Luke 14

Jesus said:
"Whenever you give a lunch or dinner,
do not invite your friends
or brothers or relatives or wealthy neighbors.
They might invite you in return and thus repay you.
No, when you have a banquet,
invite beggars
and the crippled,
the lame
and the blind.

and you will be blessed,
because they cannot repay you.
For you will be repaid
at the resurrection of the just."

These are the words of Jesus and I am thankful to be able to have the slightest participation in their fulfillment this Saturday.