Invited To The Table

So Mephibosheth ate at David's table, like one of the king's sons (2 Samuel 9:11)

Mephibosheth was the son of Jonathan and Jonathan was the son of Saul. Jonathan and David loved one another deeply (2 Samuel 1:17-27). He even paid homage to Saul who had tried to kill him. In 2 Samuel 9 David looks for those left of the household of Saul so that he can show compassion to them (2 Samuel 9:1). He is told of Mephibosheth and sends for him and invites him to sit at the king's table forever.

So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, for he ate always at the king's table. Now he was lame in both his feet (2 Samuel 9:13)

Mephibosheth was crippled (broken) but he was invited to sit at the king's table. It is a picture of God's grace, we are chosen to come to the table. It is what God is telling us, we have a place at his table, even in our brokenness.

Jesus told a parable about a lord inviting friends to his banquets but they made excuses so he sent his servants into the streets and alleys of the city to bring in the poor and the crippled and the blind and the lame, and they went into to the highway and byways to invite more to sit at his table (Luke 14: 16-24).

Jesus said if we do things for earthly rewards that will be our reward. If we were to have a banquet and invite people who will invite us back then that is our reward. But if we invite the cripple, the poor, lame, and blind who have nothing to give then we will be blessed for we will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous (Luke 14: 12-15).

God's will is that his house be filled and he shows no favoritism. For this is the kingdom of God; all are invited to come to the table. You do not have to clean up to come to the table. If God invites you to sit at the table you belong. If you are still crippled, lame, blind, and poor it doesn't mean you don't belong there. Mephibosheth sat at the table of King David lame feet and all.

It was an amazing thing when I believed, God said to me "You are home." He reminded me many times afterward, in my brokenness when I felt like I did not belong. I was home even though he did not heal all my brokenness. When we begin to see God is for us, that we are totally accepted and loved we begin to believe we belong. And when we begin to believe we belong we begin to act like we belong. So come, you are invited to the table, you belong.

Those He Calls He Equips

Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen . Hebrews 13:20-21 When God calls us he equips us, the God of Peace, the one who brought us from the dead by the blood of the Eternal Covenant, will equip you so to do his will. So in this concept of being equipped, we see the calling being irrevocable. "For it is God who works in you to Will and to act on behalf of his good pleasure." Philippians 2:13 God called you, he's working in you equipping you to work on behalf of his good pleasure. "So that the man of God may be complete fully equipped for every good work." 2 Timothy 3:17 . In Hebrews 12 we read God disciplines those he loves, so that we share in his holy character, as the scriptures

He Cares About You

Casting all your anxiety on him because he cares about you (1 Peter 5:7) You know what is the secret to being able to cast your anxieties on him? Knowing that he cares for you. If you do not believe that someone cares you will not share your anxieties and burdens with them. Knowing that God cares and values you makes a difference. Look at the birds of the air; neither do they sow nor reap nor gather in storehouses, and your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than them? (Matthew 6:26-34) Birds don't sow to have seed to eat later, they don't gather food for the winter, yet God feeds them. Look at the lilies and how they grow, not toiling nor spinning. If he cares for the birds and clothes the flowers in such glory, how much more will he value and care for you? What do you have to be anxious about if you know he cares about you? If men being bad know how to give good things to their children how much more will God give good things to his children who ask.

Children of God

but as many as receiving him to them he gave the right to become children of God, the ones believing in his name, the ones born not from blood nor from fleshly will nor from a husband's will, rather from God (John 1:12-13) Something really significant happened in regard to the kingdom of God when Jesus came. When Jesus began his ministry he made this statement to Israel, " Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand ." It is really a statement to Israel to turn, and repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Things are changing in regard to the kingdom. I truly tell you, unless a person is born from above, he is not of the kingdom of God (John 3:3) Not of the kingdom of God is the same as saying not being children of God. Being born from above is the same as saying being born from God of the Spirit. What changed significantly in the new covenant is how one enters the kingdom of God; through being born anew. Born gain is what some translate this word as. Nicodemus certa

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