Who is More Important?

I know a man with the annoying characteristic of always letting others know where they stand in his pecking order. Whenever he’s talking to someone and I walk by, if he counts me to be more important than the person to whom he is speaking, he stops, mid-sentence – whether it’s his or the other person’s – and starts a conversation with me. The reason I’ve noticed is that there have been other times when it’s me he’s been talking to when a better deal comes along. Then I’m the one he switches off.

Human logic tells us that we gain prestige from knowing people with power, influence and money. But the way that Jesus lived his life was just the opposite. He gave preference to the poor, to the homeless and to those deemed unimportant by the world. And that’s the way he wants us to live, whether or not it fits our human logic!

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