Matthew 22:12<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSo he said to him, \u2018Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment?\u2019 And he was speechless.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Although everyone is invited to the Wedding Feast of the Lord, we cannot come as we are. While the invitation is to all, nobody is permitted to come into the presence of the Majestic Lord without proper dressing. When we hear the invitation into the Lord\u2019s presence, we need to prepare ourselves in honor of the One who invites you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We are naturally filthy and unfit to enter God\u2019s presence, and although He invites us to come, we need His help to come in a manner that He can accept. We need to go to God for help because we do not have what is required to be appropriately robed for His banquet. In His mercy, Jesus does not only invite, But He also washes us and dresses us up before bringing us into His Father\u2019s presence. In the presence of the Almighty, nothing unclean can stand and unless Jesus does His preliminary work on us, entering God\u2019s presence will only earn us a harsh punishment and judgment. I celebrate Jesus because He knows the heart of His Father and He works on us before He introduces us into His Father\u2019s Grand audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThank You, Jesus. I am naturally unfit for the divine appointment and to stand before the Almighty, but I thank You, Jesus, for washing, cleaning and properly dressing me to enter His presence. I am eternally grateful. Amen.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Matthew 22:12 \u201cSo he said to him, \u2018Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment?\u2019 And he was speechless.\u201d Although everyone is invited to the Wedding Feast of the Lord, we cannot come as we are. While the invitation is to all, nobody is permitted to come into the presence of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-reflections-from-matthew"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Reflections-from-Matthew.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4300,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4298\/revisions\/4300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}