Matthew 22:4, Luke 14:21b-23

He sent some more servants and said, “Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner: My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet… Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind and the lame.’ ‘Sir,’ the servant said, ‘what you ordered has been done, but there is still room.’ Then the master told his servant, ‘Go out to the roads and country lanes and compel them to come in, so that my house will be full.’”

• As followers in Christ, we are invited to the great wedding banquet of God’s Son. Let’s seek to make Him a priority in our schedules even now.

Pondering Point

Labor Day weekend in the United States is on the horizon, when working people take time off from responsibilities or “labors” as the name suggests. We labor for many things – some paid, some unpaid. Either way, don't let the labors of your life keep you from the main priority of coming to God, of heeding His invitation to come be with Him – in worship, in life, in relationship with Him and the rest of the wedding party: His people, His family.