Read Proverbs 25:6 & 7

Read Proverbs 25:6 & 7  These two verses tell an instructive story.  King Solomon would invite everyone to come to a great banquet.  There would be rows and rows of tables for everyone.  The guests always wanted to get close to the king - those were the best seats.  But sometimes after the banquet hall was filled, an important guest would come in late.  In order to make room for this important person, the king would have to ask someone else to give the important person his seat.  In doing so, the person who was asked to give up his seat would be embarrassed because he was being asked to give up his important seat and to go take a lesser seat somewhere further away from the king.  In verse six, we are told how to save from being embarrassed like that:  we should take a lowly seat - a seat far away from the king - when we come into the banquet hall.  Then, if the king thinks that we are more important, he will ask us to come up to a better seat.  But even if he doesn't, we are at least not embarrassed and asked to take a lower seat.  What Solomon is saying here is that we should not think too highly of ourselves.  We should let someone else say that we are great.  It is much better for someone else to say good things about us than for us to say good things about ourselves.  We should be humble.  Let someone else brag on us.