RSVP

 

 

RSVP means, please respond. RSVP requests usually accompany invitations because hosts and hostesses like to know how many people will attend an event. After all, every host or hostess wants enough food and supplies during a party. They want to be adequately prepared for the event. Therefore, guests planning to attend an event are usually requested to make their intentions known by calling a given number or returning a slip or postcard provided to a provided address.  

Everybody, you included, has been invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb, Jesus Christ (Rev 19:9). Like all well-planned social events, this event must be responded to. The invitation to this wedding supper reads: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16). 

There are three possible responses to this invitation, each with eternal implications. 

·       You could respond: “Not interested.” “Don’t believe it.” “I am just fine.”  Based on the wording of the invitation, you have elected to perish.

·       Or you could respond: “Yes, I will go; I will respond after taking care of XY and Z.” If procrastination goes on long enough, the opportunity to respond will be lost, putting you in the “not interested” status.

·       But you could respond: “Yes, I want to attend the supper; I am responding right now because today is the day of salvation!” “Dear God, thank you for the gift of your dear Son, Jesus Christ, who paid the penalty for my sins. I now accept Him as my Lord and Savior, in Jesus’ name, Amen.” 

Your RSVP will be immediately received in heaven, and your name will be recorded in the Lamb’s Book of Life. On the day of the wedding supper, you will be escorted into the banquet hall to enjoy fine dining and fellowship with the Lamb (groom) and the bride (the Church of which you are part). 

Note that no one can show up with an excuse of; “I meant to RSVP but forgot or I was too busy to respond. The groom’s response to people with excuses will be, “I tell you the truth, I don’t know you” (Matthew 25:12).  

It is also important to note that each individual has to RSVP for themselves. There will be no RSVP for couples, families, Churches, friends, or any kind of group. This is an invitation to all, but group responses are unacceptable; each individual has to respond for themselves, “Whosoever will may come” (Revelation 22:17).  

So, dear reader, how will you respond to this invitation? I hope you will say “Yes,” please say it now before it is too late. God loves you but will not force you to accept this essential invitation. Anyone you know (parent, sibling, friend, or spouse) who received this invitation could not and did not include you on their RSVP. Speak for yourself today!