Sometimes we win the lottery and we don’t even know it. Yesterday at work I got the call that my mother was in a car accident and there was no info on how bad it was yet. All I knew was a vague location and that they were cutting her out of the car. At work there was nothing I could do but pray. I sent out a quick message to a few people asking for prayers and that was it. All that was left was to sit and wait and pray. I began to think about my mother what it might mean if things weren’t okay and she was taken from me. I thought about some of the millions of times together that I could remember. I felt so calm because I was so lucky. I was lucky to have a Mom that taught me so much to navigate this twisted world I live in. I felt like I had won the lottery. I prayed hard almost nonstop. “Please God keep my Mom safe”, over and over and over again, and then I got the call. She was fine, a couple minor bumps and bruises and she came home after a quick check out.
Immediately I thanked God over and over. Its easy when the coast is clear to forget about God but oh how some of us beg when under pressure. I wonder if God feels like I do sometimes when I have one of my children approach me. “Dad please, please help me, this project is do tomorrow can you help me build this?”, which usually means I will build it while they stand there. I smile and chuckle now recalling such instances but it stings a little. Why did they wait till the last minute? I would have gladly helped at any time, but now with seconds dwindling I am rushing to make a robot on a track that is functional and good so that my son can get a good grade for what I don’t even know.
God wants to be there for all of us at any given moment but we have to let him in. If a stranger came up to you and asked for $1,000 would you give it to him? If you knew someone all of you life, they loved you very much, helped you whenever you needed it, and then one day asked you for $1,000 would you give it? I condemn no one. I am no better than no one. God invites us all to heaven but we have to heed his word. You have free will. You can do what you want. What do you want to do?
Matthew 22:1-14
1And again Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying, 2"The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a marriage feast for his son, 3and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast; but they would not come. 4Again he sent other servants, saying, `Tell those who are invited, Behold, I have made ready my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves are killed, and everything is ready; come to the marriage feast.' 5But they made light of it and went off, one to his farm, another to his business, 6while the rest seized his servants, treated them shamefully, and killed them. 7The king was angry, and he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned their city. 8Then he said to his servants, `The wedding is ready, but those invited were not worthy. 9Go therefore to the thoroughfares, and invite to the marriage feast as many as you find.' 10And those servants went out into the streets and gathered all whom they found, both bad and good; so the wedding hall was filled with guests. 11"But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment; 12and he said to him, `Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?' And he was speechless. 13Then the king said to the attendants, `Bind him hand and foot, and cast him into the outer darkness; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.' 14For many are called, but few are chosen."
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