The doors are shut

God does not say that we are worthy. God says that we are loved, cherished. The doors are open and he calls us to come to him, all who are weary and all who are heavy laden. And yet our sense of worth keeps us from coming to him, though he pleads with us. The scripture says he is patient, not willing that any should perish, and yet in our pride we insist on refusing his invitation of love. There will be a day for all of us when that door is shut and we who have rejected his call are left in our hunger and thirst. Love will conquer all that is evil, the world as it is will not be allowed to go on indefinitely. So while it is still today, come as you are, unworthy, filthy, and broken, be washed, and put on Christ, quench your thirst and hunger with of Love. Be filled with Beauty and Awe. Be known and loved.

       Those who do not come, feel like they have a legitimate reason not to come . . . . they will gnash their teeth in anger when they are not allowed to enter the kingdom, though they refused the invitation. God’s wrath will abide in them

  

     But he said to him, “A man once gave a great banquet and invited many. And at the time for the banquet he sent his servant to say to those who had been invited, ‘Come, for everything is now ready.’ But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. Please have me excused.’ And another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to examine them. Please have me excused.’ And another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.’ So the servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house became angry and said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly to the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor and crippled and blind and lame.’ And the servant said, ‘Sir, what you commanded has been done, and still there is room.’ And the master said to the servant, ‘Go out to the highways and hedges and compel people to come in, that my house may be filled. For I tell you, none of those men who were invited shall taste my banquet.’ ”

   Luke 14:16–24 (ESV)