All the Best to You

He told a parable to those who were invited, when He noticed how they would choose the best places for themselves: “When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, don’t recline at the best place, because a more distinguished person than you may have been invited by your host. The one who invited both of you may come and say to you, ‘Give your place to this man,’ and then in humiliation, you will proceed to take the lowest place.

“But when you are invited, go and recline in the lowest place, so that when the one who invited you comes, he will say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ You will then be honored in the presence of all the other guests. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

(Luke 14:7-11 from Holman Christian Standard Bible ©®)

What do we need to establish or prove to be, that causes us to need to be seated in a place of honor, or to be recognized for our good deeds, or dressed better than others, or to have more Scripture memorized, or to have been saved longer than everybody else?

What is there yet to be established about my identity that I must prove beyond the fact that the One Who is Lord of all the universes is my Father?