Come to the feast…God is calling you!

Imagine receiving an invitation to a great feast. Details of the expected abundance are described in the invitation. The lavish spread would suggest a high price for this meal. However, the invitation further explains it is free! Although it was sent to you alone, permission to bring a guest is confirmed. With excitement, you share the news with your closest friend, or perhaps your husband or child. The decision to attend was easy. With great anticipation, you await the event.

God has extended the same invitation to you; “Come even though you have no money, come buy and eat! Yes, come, buy priceless, spiritual wine and milk without money and without price. Come and eat what is good and delight yourself in this feast” (based on Isaiah 55: 1,2). He is calling all those who are weary and burdened. All are welcome to the feast of His love. Jesus calls us, “Come to the table; come to the table of grace, that is provision for every need, healing of every disease, deliverance, forgiveness, and eternal life! This is My salvation, My gift to you.” His desire is extended to everyone, to be nourished and refreshed by His life! “Taste and see the Lord is good” (Psalm 34:8)!

Each person comes to the feast, the table of grace, with nothing to give. The invitation extended, and the price, only believe; believe in Jesus Christ the Son of God, His sacrifice and resurrection for you. Come desiring everything that He died to give you. Hold nothing back. The magnificence of the feast is on full display. This is a feast of God’s love!

During Jesus’ ministry on earth, many people came to Him with the expectation of experiencing this great feast. They came just as they were. Remember at that time they lived under the law, the law handed down to Moses. It called for obedience and perfection. “But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you:” (Deuteronomy 28:15). The curses noted through the remainder of Deuteronomy 28 were a list of sicknesses, diseases, and hardships. Those individuals with sickness and disease who sought Jesus, therefore, came with an affliction that suggested they were disobedient to God. Notice, however, they came seemingly without fear, but with confidence in the Lord, and in His compassion and mercy. They had nothing to offer but approached Jesus in a compromised state of being sinners. They came to receive the free gift of grace, of God’s goodness through Jesus. They came to taste and see that God was good!

Praise God for Jesus Christ, because we no longer live under the law; Jesus took the curse for us by dying on the cross: “Jesus has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”)” (Galatians 3:13). Now we live free from the law because of Jesus’ sacrifice, and there is no condemnation for those who believe. Now God’s blessing of grace is free to us (Galatians 3:14). We benefit from all that Jesus did. Jesus became sin for us, putting away or abolishing sin by His sacrifice (Hebrews 9:26; 1 John 2:2) and we have been made holy (Hebrews 10:10) (this is referring to our spirit). We are just like Jesus now in this world and share inwardly (in our spirit) His likeness (1 John 4:17; Romans 8:29).

As believers, we are given an invitation to come boldly to the throne of grace; to fearlessly and confidently draw near to God and receive help for every need (Hebrews 4:16). This is grace, provision for everything has been provided and is available, waiting to be received and experienced! That is exactly what the people did when Jesus lived on the earth. They, however, were not living as born-again children of God with a new nature. They were still under the law with sinful natures. Yet, Jesus came to heal and to show mercy and compassion. Jesus was anointed by God with the Holy Spirit and with power, going about “doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him” (Acts 10:38).

Renew your mind to these truths. Grow in knowledge of God and our Lord Jesus Christ. You have been given access by faith into grace, to stand upon God’s Word, and rejoice in the hope of His glory, rejoice in the hope of His promises given to you in love. (Romans 5:2) Come and receive without price (simply for the self-surrender that accepts the blessing) (Isaiah 55:1, Amplified). Come as you are and enjoy His magnificent feast!