Demand The Lowest Place

 But when you are invited, go and sit down in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes he may say to you, ‘Friend, go up higher.’ Then you will have glory in the presence of those who sit at the table with you.  Luke 14:10

Humility seems to be a slippery rascal among those things we are to develop as part of our Christian character. In our verse for today, if you or I have the social status or personal authority to demand the lowest place at the feast, then we have missed the point of our Lord's words. Our Lord, as you can well read, said to simply sit down in the lowest place without demand or thought of everyone seeing you making yourself humble. If a person attempts to attain humility, and then proclaims her accomplishments in that endeavor, she has likely attained only pride. Easily might most of us say that we are proud of our humility! 

Therefore we go to the wedding feast and sit in the lowest place to practice our humility, all the while hoping that everyone will notice that we are practicing our humility. Dang, missed the point again! Well keep on practicing until our Lord's lovely Spirit brings you and me to humility. Jesus gave us lots of things to practice because we are just naturally bad at them. Love, giving, joy, faith, peace, and of course humility, among many others must be practiced in order for us to grow closer to our Lord's standard. 

And always, as Paul tells us, remember that He who began this work in us will finish it!

Bucky