Be Careful Where You Sit!

[Read:  Luke Chapters 13-14]

Let's look at Luke 14:10-11 for today:  In 14:10 it talks about when you're invited somewhere, "go and sit down in the lowest place" and allow the person who invited you to come and move you to a higher place.  And in Vs. 11 we're warned by Jesus that "whoever EXALTS himself will be HUMBLED"...and vice-versa.  Let me tell you a true story that demonstrates what these two verses are trying to say:

Years-and-years ago I attend a Joyce Meyer's Ministries Ladies Conference.  Thousands-and-thousands of women came from all over the country to see her.  Well, several hundreds of us were anxiously waiting outside the conference center--wanting to be the 1st to get in when the doors opened.  We stood there waiting for over an hour!  Finally--the doors opened....and suddenly a herd of wild women stampeded forward....pushing, running, shoving ....nothing was going to stop them from seizing the front row seats!

Now these women were supposed to be "sweet, gentle, Christian ladies," but you could've fooled me!  We stood back and observed their  bullying behavior...what were they thinking?  They could've seriously injured people.  I'd expect this kind of behavior from beer guslling football fans, but not from so-called Christian women!

Well, just before the conference began, one of Joyce Meyer's daughters came on stage and exhorted those unruly ladies.  She ordered them to get out of their select seats and move to some rows in the back.  And she invited some other ladies (who were nearly trampled to death) to come and take the front row seats.

This true story illustrates the two verses I've mentioned above:  The moral of the story:

For whoever EXALTS himself will be humbled,
and he who HUMBLES himself will be exhalted."