Sunday, July 15, 2012

Grace for your spirit. July 16, 2012

Grace for your spirit
And He also went on to say to the one who had invited Him, "When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers, or your relatives or your rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return, and repayment comes to you. Luke 14:12
Jesus had b
een invited to a feast of the "Who's Who" in the area. When He began to teach, it wasn't the after dinner speech they would have expected. Jesus instructed them in the difference between fellowship and true hospitality. True hospitality is giving to someone who has no way of repaying us. Since we get no reward from the them, we will have a reward waiting from God. Sort of pay me now, or pay me later. When Jesus spoke of giving, prayer, and fasting in the Sermon on the Mount, the preference was always, Pay Me Later. That gives the glory to God and blessings from God. Isn't that what we really want?

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