What is it that allows us to come into a relationship with God? Humility. Because God has loved the world and sent His Son to make a way for reconciliation between a holy God and sinful people, we are kept separate from God only by our own pride—not believing we need or should want Him. As such, it is said that God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

When we recognize our need for Him, our insufficiencies, and our inability to cope with life's demands, we can come to terms with our limitations and turn to His abundant life. Because He is the Father who longs for the wayward to come where He waits with open arms—prepared to exalt the lowly who, in humility, understand that they can come home where they will lack no good thing.