Monday, August 22, 2016
Proper 17 C - Proverbs 25:6-7
The first thing to say is that whatever we say
about this proverb it was obviously written to those who had the ability to put
themselves forward in the presence of the king. The closest I’ve come to
royalty is the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace and since the royal
standard wasn’t flying above the royal apartment the Queen was being royal
somewhere else. Apparently no one told her I was coming. I don’t think I’ll be
using Solomon’s sage advice anytime soon. So what is to be said about two verses
which have little application to those who are not likely to stand or sit in
the place of the great? “Don’t think of yourselves more highly than you ought”
is how the apostle Paul might have applied the text to his audience, the vast
majority of whom would never get an audience with the king, unless of course
they were being martyred in the coliseum. But it is to those white robed
martyrs that the King of the universe says come up here while the kings of the
earth, and queens for that matter, are put down from their thrones. I am sure
that is not what Solomon meant to say in this proverb but then my guess is that
he might want to follow his own advice when ushered into the presence of the
KING of KINGS.
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