To read the texts click on the texts: Phil 1:18-26; Lk 14:1,7-11
Since the text of today includes 14:1,which spoke of a Sabbath
setting, this text must be seen in that light.
The text is set in the context
of a meal, and contains instructions on behaviour to guests who were invited.
Meals were important social ceremonies, and very little was left to chance. In
his instructions, Jesus advocates what may be termed as practical humility,
with words from Proverbs 25:6-7. It must be noticed that when the host asks the
guest to move down from the place of honour, no term of address, respect or
affection is used, whereas when the host invites the guest to move up, the
guest is addressed as “friend”. The future tense that is used in 14:11 (“will
be humbled”, “will be exalted”) points beyond the immediate situation to the reversal
of values that is characteristic of the economy of God’s kingdom.
When one
realises that God accepts one unconditionally, the result is practical
humility. Another consequence is that one MUST be able to accept others unconditionally.
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