Yesterday afternoon, my husband and I had friends and family over for a little party. I was reminded of the way God invites us into his family, his feast, and into his eternity. A little party or a wonderful feast is really about having a great time and enjoying life together. Beneath the surface is also love, love for the people around us, especially if we are people who proclaim to love God. We automatically extend love and trust to people we invite into our homes by just opening the door, serving them, talking with them. And yes, we had wine, too. It wasn't the well-aged wine that God talks about, but it wasn't from the bottom shelf at least. Read the verses below. There's a feast to be had!
Wow, who am I, Sue Donaldson? I don't even like hosting or party-planning, or cooking for that matter. I think I've just figured out what Jesus, Sue and others are talking about when they talk about inviting people in - to love one another the way God loved us.
Being that cooking and hosting are not my usual areas of inspiration, the poem below was the closest I could come to the idea. Maybe the next party should be dessert!
The Sweetness of Promise
You sprinkle the day with light
You sprinkle the day with light
like a confectioner with sugar.
Your sweet melodies the birds recite
and the blossoms your fingers uncover.
What is this array
but a bouquet of your arranging?
What is the soft form of my heart
but a confection or your own shaping?
This, your menagerie of living things
too delicate to last and too pretty to eat,
but yet a shame not to savor
delicacies so sweet.
......for the happy heart, life is a continual feast.
Proverbs 15:15
...Look at the lilies of the field and how they grow. They don’t work or make their clothing, yet Solomon in all his glory was not dressed as beautifully as they are. And if God cares so wonderfully for wildflowers that are here today and thrown into the fire tomorrow, he will certainly care for you.
Matthew 6:28-30
In Jerusalem, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies
will spread a wonderful feast
for all the people of the world.
It will be a delicious banquet
with clear, well-aged wine and choice meat.
There he will remove the cloud of gloom,
the shadow of death that hangs over the earth.
In that day the people will proclaim,
“This is our God! We trusted in him, and he saved us!
“This is our God! We trusted in him, and he saved us!
Isaiah 25:6-7,9
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