“True humility begins in seeing ourselves as the mere creatures we are, made by and utterly dependent upon our eternal and almighty Creator. He is very, very big; and we, by comparison, are very, very small.”

So here’s Jesus on the road, slowly, through village and town, making His way to Jerusalem. When, one day, someone in the crowd around Him asks, “Lord, will those who are saved be few?”

‘The struggle to feel like we matter, to feel like we belong, that we are a somebody and not a nobody is one we can experience at any age. It affects us all, from time to time.”

And they went with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in a manger. And when they saw it, they made known the saying that had been told them concerning this child. And all who heard it wondered at what the shepherds told them. But Mary treasured up all these things, pondering them in her heart.

The central concern of our lives needs to be our turning back to God, our repenting of our sin before God, our being redeemed from our sin by God – before it is too late. “No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.”