Seat yourself.

Reading: Job 17-19 and Luke 14

Scripture: Luke 14:8-10, When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest someone more distinguished than you be invited by him, and he who invited you both will come and say to you, ‘Give your place to this person,’ and then you will begin with shame to take the lowest place. But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when your host comes he may say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at table with you.

Thoughts:  It seems like every time this passage comes around in the reading plan it sticks out and points at me. Don't take the place of honor, take the place of humility, and let the host honor you by moving you to the proper location. I know that I have pride and ambition. I don't want to be the bottom of the pecking order, I want to move up I want to use the training got from going to school. Not sure if it is my sin nature, because I know the work I put into my degree, or just seeing the appearance that everyone seems to be doing better than me. I know that I need to spend less time thinking about what others think of me, and what others appear to have that is better than what I have. I need to cut off the input of the world and listen to what God is saying about me and who He says I am.

Prayer: Father God you are the only one who can tell me who I am. I am your son, I am who you say I am, and the only one who can raise me to my proper place. Help me hear the name you have for me and who you say I am.  Lead me in your ways and open my eyes to the things that draw me from you that I may seek you fully.