Matthew Devotions: 22:3

"... he sent out his servants to call those who had been invited to the wedding feast..."

As servants of Christ, our role is to fit those who have been called with their wedding garments.

Christ calls everyone to join him in the Feast, yet not all come. Some have excuses, others are procrastinators. Still others make light of it and think it's a pipe dream. Still he calls - still his servants are instructed to gather, proclaim, and to usher. And still his servants find very few people actually willing to go.

It's rough being a servant. Servants - if not wholly focused on their mandate from on High - may sometimes think they are not performing like they should, or that there is something wrong with their performance.  If they were doing all things right then everyone would hear them, confess Christ, and want to wear a gown, they think.

But that's not true. People have their own wills. They choose their paths, we cannot do that for them. Many will turn away and that is not our problem. Our priority is to be ready for the ones that will come, the ones that God has drawn into the Feast. That is what the Father is doing. That is what we are about. Only that.

"Friend, how did you come here without a wedding garment?" (vrs. 12). In the old days it was the King's responsibility to provide the wedding garments - so the man in this story had absolutely no excuse for not having one. We cannot speak to that. Yet, as servants of Christ, we are all about the business of fitting those who have decided to freely purchase a Garment for their sure, future Feast.

"Fitting others" comes in a lot of ways. What can be done to hem the robe for a tight fit? What can the servant do - through loving, nurturing, teaching, modeling, and blessing - that which will sure up the Garments of those he has called us to serve? When they walk into that Room we want them to shine with the luster of Bridegroom. We want them to radiate and reflect the love of the Day, without blemish or wrinkle.

So how do we do that? They are heading to a feast that we have already attended. They have only smelt the savoring meat and faintly heard the New Song riding on the Wind through the windows of their souls. But we have tasted of the meat, drank of the New Wine, and even danced before angels before the Throne. We have been there and thus know how to sure up the Garments of Grace. With that knowledge - the knowledge of their sure future - what can the Servants of Christ do in order to completely fit them for the Feast?

Servants take whoever is called and, knowing what they know, empty themselves upon the Called - fitting them with the Garments which will grant them access to the Wedding Feast of the Lamb.