You don’t need to unburden or collect yourself and then come to Jesus. Your very burden is what qualifies you to come.
Gentle and Lowly: A 14-Day Devotional
14 results found
Jesus isn’t like you. Even the most intense of human love is but the faintest echo of heaven’s cascading abundance.
When you come to Christ for mercy and love and help in your anguish and perplexity and sinfulness, you are going with the flow of his own deepest wishes, not against them.
Rather than dispensing grace to us from on high, Jesus gets down with us, he puts his arm around us, he deals with us in the way that is just what we need.
It takes a lot of sermons and a lot of suffering to believe that God’s deepest heart is “merciful and gracious, slow to anger.”
When Jesus, the Clean One, touched an unclean sinner, Christ did not become unclean. The sinner became clean.
If God sent his own Son to walk through the valley of condemnation, rejection, and hell, you can trust him as you walk through your own valleys on your way to heaven.
It is in “our weaknesses” that Jesus sympathizes with us. His is a love that cannot be held back when he sees his people in pain.
The doctrine of the atonement reassures us with what Christ has done in the past, the doctrine of his intercession reassures us with what he is doing in the present.
The atoning work of the Son, decreed by the Father and applied by the Spirit, ensures that we are safe eternally.
Do not minimize your sin or excuse it away. Raise no defense. Simply take it to the one who is already at the right hand of the Father, advocating for you on the basis of his own wounds.
All our human friendships have a limit to what they can withstand. But what if there were a friend with no limit?
The whole reason we care about sound doctrine is for the sake of preserving God’s beauty,
Just as we can hardly fathom the divine ferocity awaiting those out of Christ, it is equally true that we can hardly fathom the divine tenderness already resting now on those in Christ.