His Own Words

Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers by Dane C. Ortlund

MATTHEW 11:28-30 (NIV), “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

Heart: the very essence of a person, what defines and directs someone.

“In response to their anger, your gentleness; in response to their arrogant rhetoric, your humility…”
(Ignatius to the Ephesians, 10.2-3, emphasis added)

His heart is gentle.

His heart is humble.

MATTHEW 11:29 (NIV), “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”

2 CORINTHIANS 5:18-21 (NIV), “All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”

His call today: believe and come near.