Critical Eye

One Sabbath Jesus had gone to eat a meal in the house of a leading Pharisee, and he was carefully watched.

Jesus then told a parable to the guests, for he had noticed how they tried to take the places of honor.  And he said, "When you are invited to a wedding party, do not choose the best seat.  It may happen that someone more important than you had been invited; and your host, who invited both of you, will come and say to you, 'Please give this person your place.'  What shame is yours when you take the lowest seat!

Whenever you are invite, go rather to the lowest seat, so that your host may come and say to you, 'Friend, you must come up higher.'  And this will be a great honor for you in the presence of all the other guests.  For whoever makes himself out to be great will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be raised."

Luke 14:1,7-11

"You endowed every person with goodness, Lord.  Help me to see Your image in all the people I meet.  Amen."

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