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These wonderful words of our Lord are so often overlooked by all of mankind. To be assured that someone was prepared to leave a high, glorious place of beauty, where respect and honour was in abundance, to come as a man into a troubled world to make this free offer to us all, that we might have life, and this will grow in blessings more abundantly to reach that pinnacle “Eternal Life”, and witness that life forever that Christ gave away for that period so that we too, may now obtain to it through Him and by Him.

It is a free invitation, but it does require a special effort by us all, if we are to accept the invitation and blessings. That effort is to firstly acknowledge that we need help from someone else in life. To realize that if we try to go it alone, we will stumble and fall. To acknowledge this is the first step to humbleness. The Apostle Peter wrote 1 Peter 5:5 “Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.”

If we are to avail ourselves of this blessing we must take the first step. Recently I was having a discussion with an older gentle brother in the faith. The virtue of humbleness and contentment was obviously with him as all who came in contact with him immediately felt it. It was obvious he had at some time in his life accepted the invitation in our text and his life was made full over the years by our Lord. I inquired of him when this happened, and if he was born that way. He smiled and assured me that was not always the case, but he remembers when it all had its simple beginning. As a child growing up, he remembers how his Mother helped him with everything he did, even to helping him get dressed.

As with all children, he began to feel independent and felt there was nothing he could not achieve on his own. He displayed this to his Mother, who of course let him have his own way, but watched him from a distance as most caring parents do. One Sunday morning, full of independence, he began to get ready to go to Church, and as he rushed to put his trousers on, and of course he got both legs caught in the one trouser leg, and no matter how he struggled he landed flat on his face. All that he could do was to call franticly to his Mother, who came and gently helped him out of the predicament with only kind words.

He said he remembered the Priest on that day preached the words “Pride comes before the fall”. That was the beginning, all through life it was a day by day series of lessons and experiences and he told me that each time he had to call for help and life from the Lord, made him more contented, for never once could he recall the Lord rebuking him. We in our lives have all experienced similar events, as our brother, but to learn from them is a great blessing as it opens the door to allow the Lord to come and give us real life.