Honor Or Humility

Emily Post was a well-known expert on etiquette. She would tell you the proper table manners to observe. Her advice helped a person to be gracious in polite society. She told you not to put your elbows on the table -- and so did your mother probably -- and not to talk with your mouth full. She also told you which knife, fork, or spoon to use.

Jesus also had some words about table etiquette. They had less to do with how to behave in polite society. They had to do with the proper relationship to yourself and to others. His advice had more to do with the attitude of pride expressed by where persons wanted to sit at the table. The parable for today deals more with the spiritual state shown at the table than how to know the conventions of civilized eating.

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