Gentleness is inextricably connected to restfulness. So long as we are restless, so long as we are bucking against Christ’s sovereignty, tugging at and stifling under his kindly yoke, we will not be shaped by his gentleness. But the more we rest in our salvation, in the security of our position in him for all eternity, the more gentle we will become. He is gentle with us. And his gentleness is conferred to us, transferred to us as we find him gentle in the face of our own stubbornness and failure to get our act together. The more into his grace we rest, the more from his grace we will become
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