Come to the wedding!’ But they paid no attention and went away, some to their farms, and some to their work.
Others seized the servants of the king, insulted them and killed them. The king was furious.
He sent his troops to destroy those murderers and burn their city. Then he said to his servants,
‘The wedding banquet is prepared, but the invited guests were not worthy. Go instead to the main streets,
and invite everyone you find to the wedding feast.’ The servants went out into the streets and gathered all they found,
good and bad alike, so that the hall was filled with guests. The king came in to see the wedding guests,
and he noticed a man not wearing a wedding garment. So he said to him,
‘Friend, how did you get in without the wedding clothes?’ But the man remained silent.
So the king said to his ser­vants, ‘Bind his hands and feet and throw him into the outer darkness,
where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ For many are called, but few are chosen.”

REFLECTION:
A couple decided to bring to their home an orphaned eight-year old girl.
They clothed her, taught her table manners, enrolled her to school,
and trea­ted her the same as their two biological daughters.
The girl, however, found it hard to get into her new situation.
She preferred things as they were in the orphanage.
The adoptive mo­ther gently told her, “My girl, we brought you home and I wish we can bring the whole orpha­nage with you here.
But we cannot. Be our daughter, please.” When God reclaims us as part of His family,
He wants us to become His child, no longer a child of the world.
It is not enough that we are called and invited, we work to be fit to be chosen.
It is not also about passing a screening but taking advantage
of the call to reform ourselves to achieve fitness in God’s home.

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