If a human being tries to seat himself in the “place of honor,” he will ultimately be put to shame; but if he seats himself in the “lowest place” (the place of Jesus Christ), God will exalt him. “Now He began speaking a parable to the invited guests when He noticed how they had been picking out the places of honor at the table, saying to them, ‘When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honor, for someone more distinguished than you may have been invited by him, and he who invited you both will come and say to you, “Give your place to this man,” and then in disgrace you proceed to occupy the last place. But when you are invited, go and recline at the last place, so that when the one who has invited you comes, he may say to you, “Friend, move up higher”; then you will have honor in the sight of all who are at the table with you. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be e...
Removing idols from our
hearts through discipline of love?
Through
the prophet Jeremiah, God declared to all the people of Judah
who
disobeyed His command and went to Egypt
that
He would use His servant, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon,
as an
instrument to attack Egypt.
He
would kill those destined for death, capture those destined for captivity,
and
strike with the sword those destined for the sword.
Not
only that, but He would set fire to Egypt’s many temples,
burn
them, take their idols, and break the obelisks of Heliopolis
(Ref.:
Jeremiah 43:7-13).
As I
meditated on this passage,
it
occurred to me that God can use even unbelievers
who
are much stronger than us in many ways
to
discipline us in love when we are disobedient.
And
through this loving discipline,
God
not only seeks to bring us to repentance for our disobedient sins,
but
also to remove from our hearts everything we rely on more than Him.
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