During the rest of this week, as we approach with Jesus His passion and suffering, I will be posting some “incites” to direct our minds toward fellowship with Him across these two thousand years.
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 man your seat.' Then, humiliated, you will have to take the least important place. But when you are invited, take the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he will say to you, ‘Friend, move up to a better place.' Then you will be honored in the presence of all your fellow guests. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted. –Luke 14:8-11
I move among these, my sisters
Here in the court of the women
Where the altar smoke
Drifts out from the
Distant and inaccessible altar
This is the place of shes
The blessing-site, the giving-way
I do not strain to see
The lampstands, the bowls,
The sacrifice;
For the light that shines from there
Moves toward me:
The Priest has brought
The rites to me
And together we fellowship
Here,
In the court of women
He knows submission
Better than I
(c) 2000 Latayne C. Scott
The word “submission” is a hateful one in our society, because people assume that submitting to someone else is an admission that you are in some way inferior. But Jesus taught just the opposite. We submit to one another to show honor; not because we are wretched, but because we choose to do so. Submission as a choice is a great source of strength and power–Jesus said the servant of all is the ‘greatest of all. When women choose to be silent in worship, they exercise this same kind of power of submission; and mirror the fact that in the Old Testament temple, the court of the women was where all the giving took place.
