Daily Worship

Travelling the Way . . . Towards Jerusalem

Jock Stein February 15, 2016 0 0

Luke 13.22-30

23 Someone asked him, ‘Lord, are only a few people going to be saved?’

He said to them, 24 ‘Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to. 25 Once the owner of the house gets up and closes the door, you will stand outside knocking and pleading, “Sir, open the door for us.”

‘But he will answer, “I don’t know you or where you come from.”

26 ‘Then you will say, “We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.”

27 ‘But he will reply, “I don’t know you or where you come from. Away from me, all you evildoers!”

28 ‘There will be weeping there, and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves thrown out.29 People will come from east and west and north and south, and will take their places at the feast in the kingdom of God. 30 Indeed there are those who are last who will be first, and first who will be last.’

Think
Obedience is a narrow, focussed journey into a wonderfully broad place.


Pray
God, one day we shall discover citizens of your kingdom come from all parts of the world, from dire and desperate situations, trailing hints of glory with every footstep. We deserve to be put to shame, but they will lift us up, encourage us, rejoice with us in the wonder of our Saviour Jesus who leads us to salvation.
Enable us today to face each challenge to discipleship, to seek openings for the gospel, and to shut the door of our lives on all that is second best. As we discover your upside down kingdom, give us a heart to help the poor and the troubled, and the wisdom to know how to do it, for your name’s sake, Amen.