Gospel Reflections #302: God provides us with everything we need to enter His Kingdom

Matthew 22:13 "The king said to his attendants, 'Bind this man hand and foot and throw him out into the outer darkness, where he will weep and gnash his teeth. There he will weep and gnash his teeth."

This is the final scene in Jesus' parable about the man without wedding clothes who was gathered for the wedding feast.

All those who were invited to the wedding feast were people unworthy of the invitation who were indifferent or recoiled. This led to the gathering of people to the wedding feast.

Once those people accepted the invitation, everything they needed for the rest of the day was provided for them. But the man did not wear formal attire.

We ourselves are completely unqualified to enter God's Kingdom, but because we accepted Jesus' invitation through the cross, we can go to God's Kingdom. God provides us with everything we need to enter His Kingdom. All we have to do is receive and use them.

Also, for us, the more we know about who God is, the less we should doubt or be anxious about Him. Therefore, we should honestly receive what God has prepared and use it willingly.

However, as we accept and follow God, we sometimes get stuck in our own ways, or cling to what we have.

When we are questioned by God about this, we should change our attitude immediately (repent), but we may be stubborn or make excuses. When we do this, we don't want to look God in the face.

If we do this repeatedly, we gradually become so far removed from God that we cannot return.

In order to trust God with all our hearts, we must search daily for who our God is, and we can share the God we have discovered with our friends in faith on the Sabbath, confirming with each other who our God is, so that we can be filled with joy and be convinced of Him.

God invites everyone. It is up to us to choose that invitation. If we knew what that invitation is and who is inviting us, we would not have any worries or anxieties about the choice and would gladly accept the invitation!

No, we have already accepted God's invitation through Jesus. Let us rejoice in that!

This Gospel Reflections page is written by Masae San who lives in Hiroshima, Japan. She is a devoted student of the Bible who passionately embraces the Gospel of Jesus Christ. She shares her daily reflections on the Gospels as a way to reach out to others and spread the message of God's true love through the Christ-centered approach of Biblical Reflections. We're sharing her message here so that you too can experience the joy that comes from knowing and understanding the true Gospel message that has filled her heart.