Celebrating life takes the form of feasting throughout Scripture. The most natural way to give expression to joyfulness.
These feasts foreshadow the marriage feast of the Lamb spoken about in Revelation.
Christ said farewell to His companions after a feast, that of Passover and spoke of coming joy. In Egypt it was a meal that reminded God's people that He had delivered them from slavery.
God celebrates when His lost sons return and reminds us of that joy as we eat the bread and drink the wine, emblems of Christ's sacrifice.
As believers we are to celebrate life in all that we do. This should be the spearhead of evangelism, the calling card of the Kingdom of Heaven. There is no place for the judgemental older brother. He excluded himself from the feast as he knew only resentment in his heart.
It is the 'prodigal God' who lavishes all on His repentant son. Which son are we?
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