I have performed three wedding’s this year and one funeral.
The last wedding being that of my oldest son.
There was so much that transpired on that day both physically and spiritually.
Leading up to his wedding I wasn’t nervous at all. I had done the other two, one being just the weekend before, and they both helped me learn what to expect.
Then Friday night, after rehearsal, I couldn’t sleep. I was up all night. So I looked up the two wedding banquet scriptures from Matthew and Luke.
There is a part in Luke starting at verse 7 in chapter 14…
7 When he noticed how the guests picked the places of honor at the table, he told them this parable: 8 “When someone invites you to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honor, for a person more distinguished than you may have been invited. 9 If so, the host who invited both of you will come and say to you, ‘Give this person your seat.’ Then, humiliated, you will have to take the least important place.
10 But when you are invited, take the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he will say to you, ‘Friend, move up to a better place.’
Then you will be honored in the presence of all the other guests.
11 For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”
As the Holy Spirit gave me these verses and some other words to say, when I arrived at the venue for the wedding I went right to my notes and made the adjustments.
As I was standing in front acting as the officiant…
I had the best seat in the house.
I was up front looking out into the barn, very much like a catcher at a baseball game with the game unfolding right in front of him.
They were married in a barn, it was perfect, as the barn filled up with guests, so many showed up for the ceremony that it was standing room only, the verses above about getting a seat came to mind.
God showed me how I had gone from one not even aware of the invitation given and that a wedding was going on, to one who has been invited, has been given and accepted his wedding clothes, was very comfortable in his seating arrangement and was very surprised when the King of the banquet quietly came up and asked me to leave my seat and take the place of honor at the head of the room in order to be able to bless my son and now daughter-in-law.
One theme of the day was how perfect the day was. Everything was perfect. My response as always was, “Of course it’s perfect, it’s Kyle, he’s blessed, always has been.”
Those words were in his ceremony sermon, his brother mentioned it in his ‘best man speech’ and at the end of the day everybody had to agree.
I never considered myself blessed though, I could see it in him plain as day since the day he was born, but not in myself, and then…
God showed up like he does and gave me a completely new perspective, one from front and center…
I am, have been and will be… blessed indeed!!!
Thank you Lord!
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