"Always take the lowest place and the highest will be given you, for the highest cannot exist apart from the lowest."
I think the "highest place" is not a place of honour and recognition... as if taking a humble place will be rewarded with the opposite. Then the spiritual life would be reduced to simple sacrifice that leads to a payoff in the end. So anyone wanting to be great will give up greatness for a time so that they can get WHAT THEY WANT in the end.
The "highest place" is a mystery to those of us seeking highness - until we see life from the perspective of the lowest. This unfamiliar perspective for some of us opens our eyes to things we could not see before. "The highest place" is in fact a new persecptive, a new set of values - a new heart!
We place ourselves in the hands of Grace when we embrace the journey downwards... and trust that we are being taught what we really need to know...
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