“When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest someone more distinguished than you be invited by him, 9 and he who invited you both will come and say to you, ‘Give your place to this person,’ and then you will begin with shame to take the lowest place. 10 But when you are invited, go and sit in 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 table with you. 11 For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
Luke 14:8-11 (ESV)
Jesus uses the example of a party to convey how we see ourselves as matters of importance and automatically put ourselves at pre-defined levels of honor. But Christ makes an excellent point that we are to humble ourselves everywhere we go. The man who humbles and forsakes himself will in the end be risen up and exalted whereas the man who marvels and puts himself highest in moral and social stature has only one direction to go and that is down.
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