Today’s Thought “But He Smells Bad” G. Ward

Luke 14:12-14

He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid. But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”

A believer’s approach to most situations must never seek to find a personal benefit, but bring honor to their own Deliverer. Moreover, to think my spiritual position involving separatism as synonymous with a no interactivity code (with the world) re-invents an opposite standard of Christ’s many visits with unbelievers (*Matt.9:10-13). The sanctification HE requires (from believers) is an attitude of determination that lives out a creed of being owned by this gentle Savior. So yes, drop your frayed blankets, cups of soup, socks, etc., at your local urban area in vivid depletion, but Jesus would consider taking them home and washing them (*home more refers to the message of hope); love is intentional…