Walking past the table, you see the invitation that you had tossed there. It had arrived yesterday and you had not bothered to open it because you did not know who had sent it. There was no return address. Why would you receive an invitation from someone who did not even have the courtesy of putting their return address on it? Why would you consider the invitation? You pick it up again. Turn it over in your hands, looking for any clues as to what it is inviting you to attend. You wonder to yourself once again, "Who sent this? Why did they send it? What is it about?"
Looking at it again, you toss it back on the table and walk away. Why did you not open it? Why would you just let such an invitation lie without seeing who it was from and what it was about? It seems incredible that you would just let the invitation sit there unopened.
Have you ever done that? Have you ever not opened something because you did not who it was from or what it contained? What if you never open the invitation? What would happen? Nothing. Really, nothing would happen. You will not be arrested and jailed for not opening an invitation. You will not be out the need to buy a gift for someone. You will not know what you missed. In fact, since you have not opened the invitation, you will have no idea what you missed. So actually, by not opening the invitation, you did not even have to decide if you would accept the invitation.
Leaving it unopened frees you from doing anything. Nothing. You have to do absolutely nothing. You can live your life as before because the invitation means nothing to you.
That is the way that many people treat the invitation that they receive from the Lord. They receive it, toss it aside and then live their lives without having to change a single thing. What do you do with the invitation that the Lord lays out before you? When He reaches out to you, how do you respond? What do you do with the invitation the Lord has given to you? What is that invitation?
What is the invitation to? Tune in...
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