There is a story that Christ told about a Wedding Feast that is recorded in the New Testament. (Luke 14: 15-24 and Matthew 22:1-14)
The story starts with the king’s choice of guests for the banquet. He sent out invitations to the guests. The choice of guests would (we assume) be based on relationships to those guests and the guests being VIPs in some way.
Christ explains that the story is really about the Kingdom of Heaven: “The Kingdom of Heaven can be illustrated by the story of a king who prepared a great wedding feast for his son. When the banquet was ready, he sent his servants to notify those who were invited. But they all refused to come!”
We then see the choices of the guests. The story records that the guests make various excuses for failing to show up. Those excuses indicate choices of business life and of another human relationship taking precedence. Whatever their reason, they imply by their actions that their relationship with the King was not a priority for them.
The King considers himself insulted but is faced with a choice: He has prepared a great wedding feast for his son but… he has nobody with whom to share it. He could cancel the feast, but it’s too late for that!
However, the new invitees also have a choice: they can choose to accept or not to accept the invitation. It is recorded in the story that both ‘good and bad’ people attend and the banquet is filled with guests, demonstrating that this banquet is related to the priority that people give to their King, not the quality of the life lived prior to that.
A man, drawn from the streets to attend a wedding that he had neither anticipated nor had appropriate clothing? And the King chastises him? Surely that is unjust? But is it? The reason, of course, is that the King has provided new clothes for all the guests so that whether they are poor or not they could have elected to be dressed by the King in a manner fit for a wedding feast.