To 'Invite'

Some people sow...
some water...
some prepare the ground...
to bring it to a full harvest...
and some lay their lives....
some nurture...
some tend...
until the Harvester comes....
some invite. 

© De'Anna L. West--2009

To invite.....is to ask "a person" courteously to come,
or to do something. You invite them to reply. To invite is
to make a formal courteous request, to attract, be attractive.
To ask, to summon, to bid. To be inviting is to be attractive,
enticing, tempting, winsome, captivating, fascinating, alluring, luring,
seductive, beguiling, bewitching, entrancing, tantalizing and irresistible.
-Oxford Dictionary-

I Samuel 9:24--Saul sees Samuel and Samuel anoints Saul King
over Israel as the Lord had instructed Samuel to do. Samuel 'invites' Saul
to a feast and sets Saul in a place of honor.
This invitation anoints into kingship,
gives order, and establishes royalty.
II Samuel 13:23--Absalom 'invites' all King David's sons--but only to kill
Amnon because he had forced his sister Tamar to have sex.
This invitation was to bring about justice.
Esther 5:12--v. 4 tells us that Queen Esther 'invites' the King and Haman
to a feast (twice) so that she might save her people and herself.
Not only does this invitation save Esther's people,
but it uncovers evil and it converts Gentiles.
This invitation saves, uncovers sin, and converts the heart.