True life, wherever it is found, is ministry. Men think that they rise in life as they get away from serving; but it is the reverse. “Not to be ministered unto, but to minister,” our Lord gave as the central aim and desire of his life. These words give us also the ideal for all Christian life. The whole of Christ’s wonderful biography is focused and printed here. He himself holds up the picture as the pattern on which every disciple's life is to be fashioned. No one really begins to live at all in any worthy sense until selfishness dies in him and he begins to serve. We should ourselves ask concerning others not how we can use them to advance our interests and our welfare, but how we can do them good, serve them, become in some way blessings to them.