Who's Coming To Dinner

In today's reading (Luke 14:7-24), Jesus is speaking plainly at another dinner party put on by a Pharisee leader. He looks at the host and gives him wonderfully helpful advice on what his guest list should look like. This advice is so against our natural way of doing things that we need to listen too."When you give a luncheon or dinner, do not invite your friends, your brothers or sisters, your relatives, or your rich neighbors; if you do, they may invite you back and so you will be repaid. But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous." Can we even imagine the difference in getting repaid by a comfortable meal with friends and getting repaid eternally by our loving very very rich Heavenly Father. Now that is something to think about before we make our next guest list! Who are the poor, the handicapped, the needy that we could invite over? Who's coming to dinner?