Hymn- Brooke Fraser

If to distant lands I scatter if I sail to farthest seas would you find and firm and gather till I only dwell in Thee. If I flee from greenest pastures would you leave to look for me? Forfeit glory to come after till I only dwell in Thee. If my heart has one ambition if my soul one goal to seek this my solitary vision till I only dwell in Thee. That I only dwell in Thee till I only dwell in Thee.

These word pretty much sum up the desires of my heart and the purpose of my life. It's sad that people have this awful view of Christianity being a legalistic restrictive religion when it's in fact completely the opposite. It is not a set of rules to live by imposed by a religion it is graceful relationship with Christ. Romans 6:14 says that we are not under law but under grace. It also says, "What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not! Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one's slaves whom you obey, whether leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness? But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered. And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.... for the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."

I heard this great quote last night and I find it so true, "Christianity is merely one beggar showing another beggar where to get bread." Christ likens salvation to a feast. There's an account in Luke 14 of a great parable Jesus gave which shows us His heart on salvation: "A certain man gave a great supper and invited many, and sent his servant at supper time to say to those who were invited, 'Come for all things are now ready.' But they all with one accord began to make excuses. The first said to him, 'I have bought a piece of ground and I must go and see it. I ask you to have me excused.' And another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen and I am going to test them. I ask that you have me excused.' Still another said, 'I have married a wife and therefore I cannot come.' So the servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, 'Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city and bring in here the poor and the maimed and the lame and the blind.' And the servant said, 'Master it is done as you commanded and still there is room.' Then the master said to the servant , 'Go out into the highways and hedges and compel them to come in that my house be filled. 'For I say to you that none of those men who were inited shall taste my supper.'"

The people who made excuses to reject the invitation to the great feast were the religious people of the day that rejected Christ and certainly many people today are still making the same excuses rejecting Christ and following after other things like wealth, power etc. But Jesus extends the invitation to the poor, the blind, the lame and the maimed. These are people that are spiritually bankrupt, blind to righteousness who otherwise cannot walk or see to help themselves. He even extends His invitation to the people in the highways and hedges, these are homeless people and thieves that hid in the bushes waiting to ambush and steal from travelers.

I  am one of those people who found His feast, the source of everything good. I can't tell you I earned my invitation but I can tell you He wants you there too.