The President’s Celebration

The President’s Celebration is an adaptation of Matthew 22:1-14

God’s nation is like a President who organised a celebration for the President-Elect. He sent ambassadors and messengers to everyone with an invitation telling them to come, but they refused.

So, he tried again, sending out more messengers, saying: “Tell them everything’s ready. The best chefs, the finest food, they’re all waiting for you. Come celebrate!”

Some of the invitees, they paid no attention, busying themselves with their businesses and their jobs. The other invitees, they even kidnapped the messengers and then killed them! The President, he was furious and sent in the troops. They got the murderers and their city was burnt to the ground in the fighting.

Then the President said to his messengers: “The President-Elect’s celebration is all ready, but the people I invited didn’t deserve their invitations. So now go out into the streets and invite anyone you find.” The messengers did just that. They went out and they invited everyone, good or bad, so the banqueting hall ended up full.

But when the President came in to greet the guests, he noticed one guy who’d turned up in shorts and a t-shirt. “My friend,” he said, “how did you even manage to get in without a suit?” The guy was speechless.

Then the President told his security guards to restrain the guy and throw him out, out into the dark with its whimpering and resentment.

“Because everyone was invited, but not everyone gets to stay.”

Commentary on The President’s Celebration

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