THE whole affair is, God is glorifying His Son Jesus, and we have nothing to do but to rejoice in His grace. It is He who has thought of the "wedding" for His Son, who has thought also of the dress of the guests (providing not only the marriage supper, but everything needful to fit the guests for their presence at it), and we have nothing to do but to have done with ourselves, and to think only of the worthiness of Him who has invited us.
Our title to be at the feast is the invitation of Him who is glorifying His grace in the "marriage" for His Son. What an unworthy feeling for one instant to call this in question. He gave His Son; He sent His Son into the place of our sin and misery to bear that wrath upon the cross which was due to us; He has raised Him again from the dead.
What do you fear? Are you hesitating about your own worthiness, saying, "Oh! but my state of soul is not such as befits one who is called to the marriage supper of the King's Son"? No matter, in that sense, what the state of your soul may be; we read that they "gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good." No matter, if invited by the King, whether the invitation meets you in the "highways" as a beggar, or in the palace as a prince, so to speak. What is it you are doubting about? Has God made a mistake in inviting you? Surely you are not worthy to be before the King; but He has called you without expecting to find any worthiness in you. He knew what your unworthiness of heart was before He called you. He is calling' sinners by a love that has been proved stronger than death. The Son of God went down "into the dust of death" for sinners.
The Son of God went down under the power of Satan (though He could not be holden of it) for sinners. The Son of God went down under the power of the wrath of God for sinners. What more could have been done? Christ is risen again, and is alive at the right hand of God. “All things are ready; come unto the marriage." (Matt. 22:44Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage. (Matthew 22:4).)
God invites on the ground of what has been done, and not on that of anything yet to be done.
The only question we have to ask ourselves is, whether or not our hearts have submitted to His righteousness. Surely what He gives is that which produces fruit. At the "marriage" the King desires that cares and sins and anxieties should be all forgotten. He will have, around His.
Son, happy faces, hearts free from distrust and free from doubt. Everything can be forgotten, except that We are there. If you see this, I do ask you, Are your souls happy? Do your faces shine with gladness as those who know that their-place is to sit around that table, in the presence of the King?
God's heart is set upon the glory of Christ in connection with the joy and blessing of those whose hearts have submitted to His righteousness. And He has provided for it. If your hearts are occupied with the glory of Christ, you will not be thinking (in one sense) of what you are, or of what you were. Your thoughts will dwell upon the blessings into which you are brought through grace of which Christ is the source and the center in the! presence of God.