How to Behave at the Table for Credibility and Protection
Be cautious and apply wisdom in everything one does. Everyone
has the freedom to do whatever one wishes and wants to do with one's life,
however one may get into real trouble exercising such freedom and rights. The
generation of young people today are carried away by the law of
"rights" and many women are wrapped up in the darkness of
"freedom and equality" that they lost the virtue of respect, dignity,
and motherhood. Furthermore, citizens and subjects of the ruling council due to
corruption and oppression have lost respect for the office of the land and talk
frivolously against the man on the seat there by dishonoring the seat and many
are hurt by this.
Today the Christian Kingdom of freedom of worship and church
planting have produced many unemployed, poverty stricken, untrained,
unconverted, and Holy Ghost deprived "men and women of god" all over
the streets and webs. These categories of preachers, apostles, teachers, prophets,
and seers are characterized opportunity seekers. They preach, teach, and
condone in compromise or silence every unsound behaviors and apostasies. They
do not care who invited them for diner, the thought of eating and the smell of
the rich meal compel them to honor such invitations and after having their
fills they prophesy comfort and prosperity in the face of calamity and doom.
They encourage the thief and pray for the fraud stars in exchange for their
tithe and offering. They accept houses to stop them from preaching sound
doctrines. These also would accept extravagant gifts from the oppressors to
harness the believers to vote them into office at the detriment of the voters,
children of the land and of the Almighty God. These are the people King Solomon
is viewing when he spoke to his son, Proverbs 23: 1-3,
"When you sit down to eat with a ruler, consider
carefully what is before you; and put a knife to your throat if you are a man
given to appetite. Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food."
This passage should help one to reflect on every action one is
obliged to take. Every dining, every get together, every celebration and every
partying has a purpose and that purpose is only known to the one who invited
other/others. So, when one is privileged to be invited to such occasions; one must
control oneself and view everything through the eyes of a needle.
How to behave as a good quest
1. It is a privilege for one to be invited to eat and dine
with the rich, friends, family members, acquaintances or even
employers.
2. Honor the invitation but consider why one is invited and
do not hijack it for gain against the host
3. When one is at the table one should be careful what one
says and how one says it in case someone starts a conversation. Sometimes, the
host or another quest might direct a question towards one, one should answer
such questions politely and respectfully and after that keep quiet. If one does
not know the answer, one should not hesitate to tell them that one does not
understand it and does not have any answer to it. It is better to not say
anything than to say out of point or tell tales that are not related. One
should not start praising the food and forget one’s table manners.
4.One must not eat too much. One should prepare self before leaving
home. If one is prone to over- eating, the reasonable thing to do is to eat
very well at home before setting out for the party or diner.
5. One should behave well and watch others as well as the
countenance of one’s host.
6. One must control one’s appetite and do not let the delicacies
of food to make one to lose one’s pin, apply control, if possible, one should pretend
to be full. Go for lighter meals.
Do not speak condemnatory against anyone one does not know
who is listening behind the curtain, doors, or walls. The consequences may be too
big for one to handle and one will not remember how the food tasted!
There are changes that are very good, Internet and
technology are good paradigm changes in this generation however the detrimental
changes that one observe today in the younger generations, men and women
include moral laxity, disrespect and lack of wisdom in eating, drinking, sex
etc. Anyone who wants to do well must learn to handle all these and still pass
as a great person.
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