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Themes Humility of Christ THE COLLEGE CLEANER It was a tradition. Every year, students at Trinity College in Cambridge, England, spent time working in the slums of southern London. One student, a young man about thirty years of age, worked countless days among the poor, washing clothes and cleaning apartments. Many of the people living in these slums were poor and suffering. The young man worked hard because it was a required part of his education. Also, he felt a strange sense of satisfaction from helping people. One day, the young man was working in the room of an older woman who could not get out of bed. She lived in filthy conditions. She could not get around to help herself. He looked at the sick woman and concluded she probably would not live much longer. He felt sad as he tried to improve her conditions as much as possible. He scrubbed the floors and washed the windows. As he was standing by the window, the light shone in around him. The old woman stared at him. Suddenly, she gasped and asked him to come closer. He stepped to the edge of her bed. "Has anyone ever told you that you look like Prince Charles, " she asked? "Why, no, they haven't," he stammered out a reply. "Well," she said, "even to my tired old eyes you certainly are the spitting image of him." Nobody had ever told the young man that he looked like Prince Charles. Why? Most everybody knew he WAS, in fact, the Prince of Wales, son of Queen Elizabeth. What a great stoop for the King of England to clean filthy rooms in the slums of London. For a few days, he gave up being served by servants in a castle, to go down and clean and care for a poor old woman. This was amazing! However, how much greater is the stoop of the Lord Jesus? Imagine the King of Kings, the Creator of the Universe working in a carpenter's shop! Imagine the Lord of hanging on a cross, rejected by the men to whom He had given breath. The Lord Jesus was infinitely rich with comfort and joy in Heaven. However, He became desperately poor when He suffered and died on the cross. He suffered and died so we might be made rich. This is the message of the gospel. Because the Lord Jesus left the glory of Heaven and died on the cross we can have the riches of knowing we will be in Heaven with Him forever. As the Lord Jesus said, "The Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which was lost" (Luke 19:10).
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