God of all grace…we are astonished and marvel that one so holy and dread should invite us into Thy banqueting house and cause love to be the banner over us. –

Tozer,  Knowledge of The Holy, p. 93

I think I could spend an entire Bible study on this one sentence! Oh how rich is His grace! I wonder how we will all join in and say “Oh, I get it now” when we arrive in  heaven.  But I do believe, with all my heart that He wants us to live there now, in the astonishment and marvelousness of His grace.  He truly has prepared a banquet of love and grace and invited us in to feast on it.  Most days I, as Tozer says,  sit outside the banquet hall, starving to death.  Not because I am not invited in — but because I refuse to walk through the door.  I would rather sit within yards of His lavish provision and eat my own bread of self dependence.

Oh Lord, may we like children, run to you with great abandon.  May we forget ourselves long enough to look around and see that your grace is enough to feed our hungry hearts because grace is who you are.  Let us burst through the door of your banqueting house to see what you have prepared for those who love you.  Astonish us Lord.  Give us your eyes to see marvelous things.