Jesus said - "Learn of me for I am meek and lowly of heart."

"The lowliness of Christ may be clearly seen in yet another point of view.

He is not only willing to receive the poor, and to receive the ignorant, but he is also ever ready to receive men, despite the vileness of their characters.

Some ministers can stoop, and freely too, to both poor and ignorant;

but they cannot stoop to the wicked.

I think we have all felt a difficulty here.

“However poor a man may be, or however little he knows,” you say, “I don’t mind talking with him, and trying to do him good;

but I cannot talk with a man who is a rogue or a vagabond, or with a woman who has lost her character.”

I know you cannot; there are a great many things Christ did which we cannot do.

We, who are the servants of Christ, have attempted to draw a line where duty has its bound.

We are above our work.

We are so fastidious, that we cannot go after the chief of sinners, and the vilest of the vile.

Not so, Christ. “He receives sinners and eats with them.”

He, in the days of his flesh, became familiar with the outcasts.

He sought them out that he might save them;

He entered their homes;

He found his way into the slums, He was willing to lodge where they lodged, eat at their table, and associate with their class to find them out.

His mission was to seek as well as to save.

Oh, see him stand, with arms wide open!

Will that thief, who is justly executed for his crimes, be recognized by him? Yes, he will.

There, with his arms outstretched, he hangs; the thief flies as it were to his bosom, and Jesus gives him a most blessed embrace -

“To-day shalt thou be with me in Paradise.”

Christ has received the thief with open heart and open arms too.

And there is Mary. Do you see her? She is washing the feet of Jesus.

Why, she is a bad character, one of the worst women in the town.

“Thy sins, which are many, are all forgiven,” saith He,

and she goes her way in peace.

There are many people you and I might not think worth noticing that Christ will take to heaven at last;

for he is “lowly in heart.”

He takes the base, the vilest, the scum, the offscouring, the filth, the garbage of the world, and out of such stuff and matter as that, he builds up a holy temple, and gathers to himself trophies for his honour and praise."

Excerpts from Charles H. Spurgeon's sermon - "The Meek and Lowly One." - Matt. 11 : 28-30