Making Excuses

Making excuses.

We all do it, and we are all accountable for doing it. We make excuses for our behavior. Even those who say they have no one to answer to and therefore make no excuses are making the excuse of having no one to answer to. 

Luk 14:16  Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many:

Luk 14:17  And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready.

Luk 14:18  And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused.

Luk 14:19  And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused.

Luk 14:20  And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.

Excuses.

What WE desire to do is more important to us than what Christ would have us do.  We put our own needs before His needs, and what His needs are consist of our loving Him and loving Others.

SELF LAST- this is a lesson that takes a lifetime to learn, this is a lesson that is impossible for us to learn on our own. It is ONLY through the Holy Spirit we have any hope of being able to subdue the self in us.  Denying ourselves-  do we, should we?

Mat_16:24  Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Mar_8:34  And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

We are invited to the great wedding feast  between Christ and His Church(His people),all of us are invited to be a part of that Church, to be Christ's Bride- there is no wedding feast without the bride after all.  Yet, so many of us will choose not to go to the wedding feast, to not be Christ's bride.  So many of us will come up with excuses. Only when our Savior returns and we long to go with Him it is then He will tell us that He doesn't know us and we will realize all at once just how we filled our lives with excuses not to live for Christ.  Every single excuse we make will flash before our eyes, we will KNOW why Christ doesn't know us, because WE are the ones choosing not to know CHRIST!

Excuses, we are filled with excuses. God forgive us, we love our excuses.

Will we use our jobs? Will we use our possessions? Will we use our loved ones?  Or maybe we'll use all of those and many more.  God HELP us not use any excuses to not live for Christ, to not love as He would have us love, to not give ourselves to Him fully.

Please, Father, HELP US! SAVE US from ourselves and all our stupid excuses!

In the name of our SAVIOR Jesus Christ our LORD, now and forever, amen!