3.084 It All Starts With an Invite
Show Notes
Discover the profound impact of a simple invitation as Hope, co-host of Savory Salt, reflects on Exodus 2:20. This episode explores how Jethro's invitation to Moses to 'eat bread' initiated a pivotal chapter in his life, inspiring listeners to extend invitations that foster belonging and lead to life-changing connections in their own spiritual journeys and daily lives.
Key Points
- Reflect on Exodus 2:20, where Jethro's simple invitation to Moses to 'eat bread' at his home initiated a pivotal turning point in Moses's life.
- Understand how extending invitations, whether for activities, social gatherings, or spiritual events like seminary, can profoundly impact individuals and lead to significant growth.
- Recognize the critical importance of inviting others to foster feelings of welcome, belonging, and connection within communities and personal relationships.
- Be inspired to actively seek opportunities to invite people, acknowledging that these simple gestures of invitation can make a transformative difference in their lives.
I would just like to bear my testimony about that—that invitations do matter. When you are invited, you feel welcome, and it is really good to be invited, and you just feel good.
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Full Transcript
In Matthew 5, Jesus calls us the salt of the earth and the light of the world, reminding us that our lives are meant to preserve, illuminate, and point others to him. This season on Savory Salt, we'll walk through the Old Testament, one verse and one thought each day. Perhaps these moments will add greater savor and brighter light to our lives as we seek to truly live as Savory Salt.
Hello, my friends! It's a new day with new opportunities. Choose ye this day whom ye will serve.
It's me again, and I've been told that my sister's and my voices sound a lot alike when we're recording, so it is Hope this time. Nice to be back with you. I have a thought today, and I hope you enjoy it.
This week we'll be reading Exodus 1 through 6, and our verse today will come from Exodus chapter 2. So I was reading, and I was like, "Did you do…" and then I just kept coming back to this verse, and I was like, "There's something I need to share from this." So now we are sharing it. Woohoo!
It is verse 20. We're going to do a background first. So what's happening is Moses is growing up.
He's growing up in Egypt. And then he finds out he's a Hebrew, and he goes out to all the Hebrews, and they're in slavery right now, so they're not doing too well. And he goes out, and he's like, "Oh my, there's a man being beaten over here by this slave guy!" And so he looks around; he's like, "Okay, no one here." Kills the slave guy, hides, and then he's like, "Oh crap, what did I just do?" And he runs away.
So now he's in Midian, and he's just hanging out at a well. And then these girls come, and they're getting water for their flocks, and so he helps them out, and then they leave, and that's where our verse comes in. So our verse today is verse 20, and it says this: "And he said unto his daughters, And where is he?
Why is it that ye have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread." So that is the father. They're like, "Oh, Dad, look, this dude just came and helped us out with our flocks!" And he's like, "Well, why did you leave him there?
Invite him over and have him stay." And so that is the topic I want to talk about, is that invitation to Moses to come and eat bread. So, spoiler alert: that invitation actually has Moses staying there for quite some time, and he gets a wife and a kid, and, you know, la. So it all started with that invitation.
If Jethro hadn't invited Moses to come and stay, then none of that would have happened. All of this started with the simple invitation to come and stay. So I was thinking, and I was like, why aren't we doing that more often?
Like, in our lives, why aren't we inviting people to do stuff? Whether it's just an activity over here, or come to church over here, or seminary over here, or even just a simple invitation to come sit by me, like in whatever activity you're doing. And that got me thinking of a fireside I went to last week, I think.
And this dude was talking about his mom's conversion story. So, how his mom converted to the gospel was actually an invitation simply to go to seminary. These two girls just came up to her and were like, "Hey, you should come to seminary with us." And she was like, "Well, okay, I guess it can't hurt." And she went to seminary.
She liked it. And that is how she converted. It is just with that simple invitation to, "Hey, you should come join us for this thing over here." I would invite you today, or tomorrow, or the next couple of days, to find ways to invite people.
Invite them to do an activity with you, or to come to a youth activity. Or if you're an older adult, maybe, "Hey, let's go out to lunch and have a good conversation," or out to dinner with your spouse. It's just simple things like that, and it really matters to people.
It really does. I would just like to bear my testimony about that—that invitations do matter. When you are invited, you feel welcome, and it is really good to be invited, and you just feel good.
And I know that inviting, even if they don't accept it the first time, if you keep inviting them, they will feel like they are welcome with you, that they belong. It really does make a difference. That's all for today, my friends.
You and I have come here for such a time as this. Step forward in faith, and let's be savory salt. We'll be here tomorrow, and we hope you are too.
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