Recovery Christian Center Daily Meditation - 11/15/12 - Maintaining Humility

"When Jesus noticed that all who had come to the dinner were trying to sit in the seats of honor near the head of the table, he gave them this advice: “When you are invited to a wedding feast, don’t sit in the seat of honor. What if someone who is more distinguished than you has also been invited? The host will come and say, ‘Give this person your seat.’ Then you will be embarrassed, and you will have to take whatever seat is left at the foot of the table! Instead, take the lowest place at the foot of the table. Then when your host sees you, he will come and say, ‘Friend, we have a better place for you!’ Then you will be honored in front of all the other guests. For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.” Then he turned to his host. “When you put on a luncheon or a banquet,” he said, “don’t invite your friends, brot

hers, relatives, and rich neighbors. For they will invite you back, and that will be your only reward. Instead, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. Then at the resurrection of the righteous, God will reward you for inviting those who could not repay you." Luke 14:7-14 NLT

It has been said that humility is as important to our ongoing recovery and our walk with Christ as food, water and oxygen are to us staying alive. If this is true then why do so many Christians and folks in recovery allow themselves to get big headed and over inflate their egos? We tend to go through life with an undeserved sense of entitlement because we finally got ourselves together. And don't give us a title, whether its spiritual, professional or academic because then we really think we know something. We begin to forget that everything we have and everything we are comes from God. We begin to ask others, "Don't you know who I am?"

This is dangerous for us. We have to remember where we came from and Who it is that brought us out and got us where we are today. Jesus, in the text, is reminding His disciples to be humble and let God exalt us. If we live an attitude of humility then we don't need to remind others how great we are because they will see the greatness of God in us and will want to be around us. After all no matter where we are in life we are all just servants of and stewards for Him. We don't need others to know who we are because we know Who's we are.