It's day 32 already!
less than 10 days left...
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Today's topic is about humility handles our tendency to compare.
Being humans, we always strive to be the best.
Since young, we've been brought up to strive for number 1.
To be number 1 in our studies, to be top of the rankings in the game that we play, or the top player in the sport that we play.
How do we know when we're at where we want to be at?
We start to compare.

When sitting at a table, especially at an important dinner, we always tend to want to sit close to the hosts, so that other people can see how important we are.
The closer we sit to the host, the more important it appears that we are.

However, how embarrassing it will be, if the host ask us to give up our seats for someone else, because we are not deem as important as the other person?

So... Do we take the lowest seat, and slowly advance ourselves?
No.
Instead, we are told to take the lowest seat whenever possible.

Somehow, I feel that today's passage speaks to all of us.
When we put ourselves in the lowest position, we tend not to compare.
When we willingly take up the lowest seat, we tend not to compare with other people, we recognise the fact that God has placed us in the position.
And when we recognise the fact that God has placed us in that particular position, we tend not to compare, but instead think about what we can do in that position.
In sch, we think about how we can reach out to our fellow students.
At work, we think about how we can reach out to our colleagues, and customers.

When we recognise that we have been put into that position by God, when we humble ourselves enough to put God first, and not us, we stop comparing!
As we recognise why us, and not someone else, we stop comparing.
And when we stop comparing, that's when we can truly do what we have been called to do.

When we recognise it doesn't really matter if we occupy the lowest seat, or the highest seat, that's when we can truly seek God, and do His will. =)