Sunday Devotions: Beyond Honor and Shame

Proverbs 25, Luke 14, Hebrews 13

One Sabbath Jesus was invited to eat at the house of a Jewish leader. The other guests immediately rushed to grab “places of honor” at their host’s table, apparently forgetting the proverb in this week’s lectionary readings:

Do not put yourself forward in the king’s presence
    or stand in the place of the great,
for it is better to be told, “Come up her…