Today, I am reading and commenting on Proverbs 25-28.

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Much like the last couple of days, today’s passage contains multiple proverbs on similar subjects interspersed with proverbs on other subjects.  The first of those which I want to point out resembles a parable which Jesus recounted in the Gospel of Luke. There Jesus told us that when we are invited to a feast we should not sit int a place of honor, but rather we should sit in the lowest place.  If we were to sit in the place of honor, the host might come and tell us that it was reserved for someone else and we would be shamed for taking a place of greater honor than we deserved.  On the other hand, if we sit in the lowest place, the host may come and move us to a seat of greater honor, and we will receive even greater honor than the place we are seated will command.  Here the proverb tells us that it is better to be moved to a place of greater honor than to be removed from a place of honor.  Throughout today’s passage the writer comes back again and again to the idea of not seeking to honor ourselves.  The writer tells us not to tell others why we are deserving of honor, rather let those who have seen our actions do so.  Closely related to that, he warns us that doing things which we perceive as being glorious lacks glory.  We should not seek to do things because those things bring glory to us.  Some of the greatest disasters in history came about because people did something in order to gain glory.  Which is closely related to another theme repeated several times in today’s passage: those who are wise in their own eyes are fools.

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