Day 214..."More Genealogy...Great Seats!

Our journey through I Chronicles chapters three and four contain more genealogy with the descendents of David, Judah, and Simeon. Isaiah writes that Damascus will be in ruins. There are also other signs of destruction in chapter seventeen. The reason for the peril is forgetting the Lord..."For you have forgotten the God of your salvationand have not remembered the Rock of your refuge;therefore, though you plant pleasant plants and sow the vine-branch of a stranger, though you make them grow on the day that you plant them,and make them blossom in the morning that you sow, yet the harvest will flee away in a day of grief and incurable pain." The parable of the "Wedding Feast" encourages to sit humbly at a banquet and then await the an invitation to a more honored seat. The reason...humility leads to honor..."For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.” This is the same message as yesterday with the sinners prayer. Humility will lead to a better seat in the Kingdom of God than self-righteousness.