Humble
When he noticed how the guests chose the places of honor, he
told them a parable. “When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do
not sit down at the place of honor, in case someone more distinguished than you
has been invited by your host; and the host who invited both of you may come
and say to you, ‘Give this person your place,’ and then in disgrace you would
start to take the lowest place. But when you are invited, go and sit down at
the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he may say to you, ‘Friend,
move up higher’; then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the
table with you. For all who exalt themselves will be
humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”
He said also to the one who had invited him, “When you give a
luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your fiends or your brothers or your
relatives or rich neighbors, in case they may invite you in return, and you
would be repaid. But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled,
the lame, and the blind. And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay
you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”
Luke 14:7-14
We are not used to getting paid later for your services. When we
work, expect to be paid in the next pay period. That is not the way it is with
eternity. Jesus will see to it that all of the good things we have done in life
will be repaid when we die. But first, we have to accept Jesus as our Savior,
now, in this life. Otherwise there is no other live.
We will have a grand time
as we enjoy what God has reserved
for us later.
What is done for Christ in this life
will be rewarded in the life to come.
Our Daily Bread –