Excuses
“A certain man made a great supper, and bade many…And they all with one consent began to make excuse” (Luke 14:16,18).
When a man prepares a feast, those who are invited rush in, and some who are uninvited may even try to “crash the party.” But when God prepares a feast they all begin to make excuses and don’t want to go.
When you read the whole parable (Luke 14:16-24) you see how foolish the excuses really were. The first man excused himself because he said he had bought a piece of land and had to go and see it. Foolish! He ought to have looked at it first. The second man bought a team of oxen and had to go and prove them. Foolish! He should have proved them before he bought them. The third said that he had married a wife and could not come. He was the most foolish of all! He should have brought his new wife with him.
We shake our heads, but people are just as foolish today. Many are giving lame excuses to God as to why they cannot come to the Saviour. If they don’t repent they will remember those excuses in a lost eternity.
