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.
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