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*The Guests: False Popularity (Luke 14:7–11)*
Experts in management tell us that most people wear an invisible sign that reads, “Please make me feel important”; if we heed that sign, we can succeed in human relations.
On the other hand, if we say or do things that make others feel insignificant, we will fail.
Then people will respond by becoming angry and resentful, because everybody wants to be noticed and made to feel important.
In Jesus’ day, as today, there were “status symbols” that helped people enhance and protect their high standing in society.
If you were invited to the “right homes” and if you were seated in the “right places,” then people would know how important you really were.
The emphasis was on reputation, not character.
It was more important to sit in the right places than to live the right kind of life.
In New Testament times, the closer you sat to the host, the higher you stood on the social ladder and the more attention (and invitations) you would receive from others.
Naturally, many people rushed to the “head table” when the doors were opened because they wanted to be important.
This kind of attitude betrays a false view of success.
“Try not to become a man of success,” said Albert Einstein, “but try to become a man of value.”
While there may be some exceptions, it is usually true that valuable people are eventually recognized and appropriately honored.
Success that comes only from self-promotion is temporary, and you may be embarrassed as you are asked to move down (Prov.
25:6–7).
When Jesus advised the guests to take the lowest places, He was not giving them a “gimmick” that guaranteed promotion.
The false humility that takes the lowest place is just as hateful to God as the pride that takes the highest place.
God is not impressed by our status in society or in the church.
He is not influenced by what people say or think about us, because He sees the thoughts and motives of the heart (1 Sam.
16:7).
God still humbles the proud and exalts the humble (James 4:6).
British essayist Francis Bacon compared fame to a river that easily carried “things light and swollen” but that drowned “things weighty and solid.”
It is interesting to scan old editions of encyclopedias and see how many “famous people” are “forgotten people” today.
Humility is a fundamental grace in the Christian life, and yet it is elusive; if you know you have it, you have lost it!
It has well been said that humility is not thinking meanly of ourselves; it is simply not thinking of ourselves at all.
Jesus is the greatest example of humility, and we would do well to ask the Holy Spirit to enable us to imitate Him (Phil.
2:1–16).
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