THE STRIVE FOR MASTERY

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Luke 14:8-9 When someone invites you to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honor, for a person more distinguished than you may have been invited. If so, the host who invited both of you will come and say to you, ‘Give this person your seat.’ Then, humiliated, you will have to take the least important place

In today’s parable, the host telling you an invited guest to ‘give up your place’ says something about that place. It highlights that there can be a cycle of displacements for a specific seat. It is therefore more than just being about the occupier of the seat, but also thinking about the seat which is being occupied.

For a brief moment, let us put aside the “we are all human beings argument” while that is very true and we are be equal in Christ, in terms of Impact and value, let’s not mince words, some people are more distinguished than others. So when honour is being accorded, there will be clear stratification and this is not due to bias, prejudice or discrimination.

There are some offices and seats for which the capacity required to sit in them is no joke. Not anyone can stand in them. You have to be bearing specific battle scars of tenacity and endurance, sacrifice and hardwork, to stand in them. And those scars will be what distinguishes you.

That is why we strive for mastery  competency and excellence because only when you become distinguished, will you be ushered through specific doors and into specific seats.

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