Ever had a day when you were frustrated?

I know I've had a lot of days where I was but today in reading Matthew 22 I thought about how frustrated the king must have been when he went to all the trouble of planning the marriage for his son and no one showed up. If you have ever been involved in even a small way in planning a wedding, you know this would be the ultimate disaster!

The invited guests ignored the invitation, they made fun of the king and they even killed his servants. Talk about moving directly from a wedding to a funeral- how this must have angered and disappointed the king.

Today God is preparing the banquet table for the marriage supper of the Lamb, yet so many are ignoring His requests to come, they make light of it, some even kill his servants. How angry and frustrated He must be when He looks at the creatures He has created and realize how many ignore Him.

I wonder what He thinks at times, how His heart must break to realize He gave His precious Son, yet many turn away and ignore this gift. I think He must be frustrated to that we, the servants that are supposed to be inviting others to this supper are often going our own way. We aren't telling others about Jesus blood and God's love. They are not even receiving the invitations because we fail to deliver it.

How would you feel if you had planned something special and had sacrificed to make it happen and the very people who claimed they loved you threw the invitations you asked them to deliver away? I know I'd be mad, I'd be hurt, I'd be disappointed but most of all, I'd wonder, what did I do to cause them to treat me this way? God knows His holiness and He knows that our actions are not because He did something to make us treat Him that way but rather our actions are based on our own selfishness and sin nature.

The truly amazing part of that is He knows that, He sees how we treat Him and treat others yet He is still there to lovingly welcome us back when we realize what we have done. If we could only open ourselves to allow that love to flow through us, what a difference it would make to this world!