SALVATION: Isaiah gives us this extraordinary image of God preparing a banquet for all peoples. Death will be destroyed and tears will be wiped away. God isn't merely rescuing His people from something. He is inviting them to something: communion with Him.

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CONTENTMENT: Paul has experienced abundance and poverty. His peace no longer depends upon which one he happens to be experiencing. He has learned that circumstances change, but Christ remains.

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INVITATION: A king prepares a wedding feast, but those originally invited refuse to come. The invitation then goes outward. The tragedy isn't that God didn't invite them. The tragedy is that they had something they considered more important than the invitation.

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Fr. Erik Vigil