“…Everyone Who Makes Themselves Important Will Be Made Humble. But Everyone Who Makes Themselves Humble Will Be Made Important.”

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Zechariah 10; Zechariah 11; Zechariah 12; Psalm 126; Luke 14

“…Everyone Who Makes Themselves Important

Will Be Made Humble. But 

Everyone Who Makes Themselves Humble Will Be Made Important.”

Scripture

Luke 14

⁷ Then Jesus noticed that some of the guests were choosing the best places to sit. So he told this story: ⁸ “When someone invites you to a wedding, don’t sit in the most important seat. They may have invited someone more important than you. ⁹ And if you are sitting in the most important seat, they will come to you and say, ‘Give this man your seat!’ Then you will have to move down to the last place and be embarrassed.

¹⁰ “So when someone invites you, go sit in the seat that is not important. Then they will come to you and say, ‘Friend, move up here to this better place!’ What an honor this will be for you in front of all the other guests.

¹¹ Everyone who makes themselves important will be made humble. But everyone who makes themselves humble will be made important.”

Observation

Have you ever watched people at a food event like a potluck supper at church? Have you ever noticed that the same people always are at the front of the line? How can they be that fast or that hungry! 

Jesus was watching everyone at a dinner and He took time to use the occasion to teach a huge principle that all of us and especially those of us on staff at different churches need to remember. 

Here is the principle: You are not that important! Act like everybody else is more important and then you will be made important! 

 We were created to serve not to be served. 

For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many." Mark 10:45

 Application

I will strive to serve today rather than be served.

Prayer

Heavenly Father, Thank You for this principle of greatness/servant hood. Now please help me to live it out. Thank you for our friends Hugh and Millie Roberts, who live out this principle so well. 

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