The Way Up is the Way Down

I am re-absorbing the late Stanley Voke's book Personal Revival: Living the Christian Life in the Light of the Cross. It is gospel gold. In his opening chapter entitled, "The Way Up is the Way Down, Voke writes:

Zacchaeus had to come down from his tree to find salvation. Peter came down from his boat to walk on teh water to Jesus. Lepers and blind men came down to the Lord's feet to find healing. Prophets and apostles found the fulness of the Holy Spirit as they lay prostrate before God. The last church in Revelation was promised rightousness and riches when she took the place of poverty, blindness, nakendness and need. In each case, the way up was the way down.... This is where we must come if grace is ever to reach us."

Quoting the Old Testament, Peter said it like this, "God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble."  Or as Jack Miller used to say, "Grace flows downhill."