Imagine two people going to give an offering to their Maker,
one is well dressed with clean notes as his offering and the other is casually
dressed with dirty and rumpled notes as his offering. Who do you think will be
more appreciated by their Maker? Our God is a God of beauty; He loves good
quality and good finishing. He is not an “anyhow” God! This post aims at
emphasizing the truth that God has high tastes and standards and we should
relate with Him accordingly.
So those servants went out into the highways and gathered
together all whom they found, both bad and good. And the wedding hall was
filled with guests. “But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw a man
there who did not have on a wedding garment. So he said to him, ‘Friend, how
did you come in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless –
Matthew 22:10-12 (NKJV)
And you shall make holy garments for
Aaron your brother, for glory and for
beauty. and they shall make the ephod of gold, blue, purple, and scarlet
thread, and fine woven linen, artistically
worked.– Exodus 28:2,6 (NKJV)
Nature gives us a good picture of what
God appreciates. Everything was fearfully and wonderfully made. God was
detailed in His creation; nothing was done half-hazardly. Everything followed a
due process in creation; there was no fish without the sea. When you look at
nature you see pure beauty; that is the kind of God you serve. You are to
relate with Him according to this knowledge.
In the parable of the wedding feast
(Matthew 22:1-14), the King invited some people to his feast but they turned
him down and so he sent his servants to the highway to invite as many as they
could find, good or bad, and they did as instructed. But when the king came in
and saw a man without a wedding garment, he didn’t take it lightly. He
commanded that he be removed from the feast. Those things you call “little
things” actually matter to God. Read more...
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