Bonaventure engraved this sweet saying of our Lord, ‘Learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart,’ in his study; and oh that this saying was engraven upon all your foreheads, upon all your hearts!

-Thomas Brooks, The Unsearchable Riches of Christ from vol. 3 of Works, p. 33.

We learn from men in suits. We learn from men in caps and gowns and robes. We learn from men with enough degrees to classify them as walking thermometers. Now imagine learning from a homeless man with dusty feet. Imagine learning from someone who is perfectly humble. His only degrees are degrees of glory (2 Cor. 3:18). And so we ought to learn from him.

• And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

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