Thursday Devotional – Jesus is Worthy of Feasting! (2/12/26)

I attended a family friend’s wedding several years ago that had numerous festivities over several days. In fact, there were specific types of clothing we (my parents, siblings and spouses) were to wear, depending on the day’s event. It was a memorable experience!

What’s the best banquet, wedding or celebration you have ever attended?

The best wedding celebration still awaits us – the wedding feast of the Lamb!

Revelation 19:6-10 ⁶ Then I heard what sounded like a great multitude, like the roar of rushing waters and like loud peals of thunder, shouting:

“Hallelujah!
    For our Lord God Almighty reigns.
⁷ Let us rejoice and be glad
    and give him glory!
For the wedding of the Lamb has come,
    and his bride has made herself ready.
⁸ Fine linen, bright and clean,
    was given her to wear.”

(Fine linen stands for the righteous acts of God’s holy people.)

⁹ Then the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!” And he added, “These are the true words of God.”

¹⁰ At this I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, “Don’t do that! I am a fellow servant with you and with your brothers and sisters who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For it is the Spirit of prophecy who bears testimony to Jesus.”

As a bride prepares herself for her wedding day, we are called to prepare for Jesus’s return and His wedding feast. This preparation isn’t about “doing good and trying harder,” but by receiving the clean clothes (verse 8) Jesus offers us (Revelation 7:14). Our “righteous acts” start with faith in Jesus and what He’s done to save us. We can’t do anything pleasing to God without being first covered in Jesus’s robes of righteousness. His blood covers our sin, and His Holy Spirit enables us to serve Him. It’s His work in and through us.

You’ve received an invitation to the wedding supper of the Lamb. What an undeserved blessing! How have you responded to this invitation? Jesus is worthy of this eternal celebration feast, and we get to join the endless party!    

Alice

Thursday Devotional - Jesus is Worthy – As the Perfect Holy Week Lamb (4/17/25)

Today (Maundy Thursday) is the day we remember Jesus’s betrayal and arrest, among at least 10 other significant events that happened this last day before Jesus’s crucifixion. He was unjustly sacrificed for you and for me. Yet, that was God’s plan of redemption. Jesus was the only One who could once and for all pay the price for our sin. He was the only completely perfect Lamb. As such, He is worthy to be back at God’s right hand, worthy to open God’s scroll, worthy to reveal God’s plans to us, worthy of our service and worthy of our praise! 

Revelation 5:6-12 ⁶ Then I saw a Lamb, looking as if it had been slain, standing at the center of the throne, encircled by the four living creatures and the elders. The Lamb had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth. ⁷ He went and took the scroll from the right hand of him who sat on the throne. ⁸ And when he had taken it, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of God’s people. ⁹ And they sang a new song, saying:

“You are worthy to take the scroll
    and to open its seals,
because you were slain,
    and with your blood you purchased for God
    persons from every tribe and language and people and nation.
¹⁰ You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God,
    and they will reign on the earth.”

¹¹ Then I looked and heard the voice of many angels, numbering thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand. They encircled the throne and the living creatures and the elders. ¹² In a loud voice they were saying:

“Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain,
    to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength
    and honor and glory and praise!”

Jesus gave up all to give us all! How will you and I worship and serve Him today and this weekend for His worthiness as our Perfect sacrificial Lamb?

Last year, we washed each other’s feet, just as Jesus washed His disciples’ feet the day before His death. I would like to try to do that again tonight and talk about other ways we can serve each other as Jesus served His disciples. Jesus then served us in the ultimate way by laying down His life for us! Praise our worthy Lamb!!!