“Learn From Me, . . .

“Learn From Me, . . .

for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.” Matt. 11:29. Jesus Christ is our tutor in everything that is good and godly. Instead of “meek and lowly in heart,” it could just as well have said (for example), “full of love and wisdom” or “full of truth and righteousness.”

But what He at that moment chose to invite us to learn from Him, He chose carefully according to the wisdom that was in Him!

He experienced how hard and hardened even His chosen disciples could be, and without being lowly in heart, we cannot receive any grace from God, which is the same as saying that we will not receive help to learn what we are called to learn.

We cannot hear His voice without being meek and quiet, and how could we then learn??? If we want to hear His voice, we must stop talking, and be calm and quiet in our inner man. Therefore we must learn these two things first of all. If we do not learn this, then neither will we learn all the other things that are included in our extensive curriculum.

What Jesus invites us to learn from Him, first of all, is the direct opposite of all that is hard! The person who is meek and quiet is not hard, and the person who is lowly in heart is even more tenderhearted!

It is precisely because a person’s heart is soft and tender that he is attentive and receptive to all the other things—all the other virtues of Christ that we are called to partake of. In other words, everything succeeds! Hallelujah!

A particularly significant characteristic of all those who are meek and lowly in heart is that they rest in God in all circumstances.