This week’s blogs are about chapters 21 and 22 in Matthew.
In these chapters, Jesus teaches a couple parables. These parables share
similarities with the magistrates and rulers and people in Jesus’ time. It also
gives us some perspective in today’s day about what we should or shouldn’t be
doing.
The first was the parable of the Fig Tree. The parable tells
the story about a tree that was supposed to produce fruit to eat. However, the
tree was empty, and Jesus commanded than no fruit would grow on these trees so
they withered away. This reminds me of when the Temple in Jesus’ time was used
for casting lots and unholy things. If the people or the buildings aren’t being
used to teach truth and righteousness, then they won’t be able to teach at all.
The second parable I’d like to share is the parable of the
wedding guest. It is found in Matthew 22. The story is about a king who invites
his kingdom to a wedding but they all do not want to go. Even after sending
servants telling the people of all the goodness at the wedding, they do not
want to go. They end up killing a
servant that enrages the king and the king burned their cities. After the
destruction, the servants gather as many people as they can and send them to
the wedding. When the king enters the wedding and looks at the guests, he was
speechless. There was on man not in his wedding garments. This man, the king
sent out into outer darkness. The parable ends was the phrase “many are called,
but few are chosen.” In the Joseph Smith translation, it continues with
“wherefore all do not have on the wedding garment.”
The king in this second parable is our Heavenly Father, and
this wedding is our after-earth life we can choose to live with him. We are all
called to return and live with him. And there is so much goodness that comes
with that. However, some will chose not to go back and they will be destroyed. Christ
has come and died for the world, but still some do not want to return. And even
when they do, they have to be worthy to live with the Father in Heaven.
These two parables have things we can learn things and apply
them to our daily lives. To learn more about these parables or about the LDS
faith visit: www.lds.org
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