If you could ask anyone to Thanksgiving dinner, living or dead, whom would you invite?
Answers to that question were printed in the Denver Post years ago. My favorite response: “Someone to cook.”
Before you read on, think about whom you would invite.
If I could invite anyone to dinner, it would be the Thanksgiving crowd from my childhood (See Giving Thanks for Thanksgiving), plus my immediate family: husband, “kids” and their spouses, grand “kids” and their spouses, and great-grands. Everyone would be healthy, of course, and my brother’s “kids” would be grown up with their own spouses and “kids.” Wow, wouldn’t that be something?!
I wonder if this doesn’t represent a longing for heaven, and the marriage supper of the Lamb (Revelation 19:9)?
All of our brothers and sisters in Christ will be there. No one will be missing. We will all be dressed in our best: fine linen, the righteous acts of the saints.
The ultimate reunion is in each of our futures.
Heaven is more than this, of course, but today I am imagining a lovely family reunion, grateful for the past, and grateful for the present.
And I am so grateful I can anticipate, with joy, the glories of heaven to come.
“Let us rejoice and be glad and give the glory to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come and His bride has made herself ready.” It was given to her to clothe herself in fine linen, bright and clean; for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints. Then he said to me, “Write, ‘Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.’ ” And he said to me, “These are true words of God.”” (Revelation 19:7–9).
