Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

by Dane C. Ortlund

Even the most intense of human love is but the faintest echo of heaven’s cascading abundance.

If his grace in kindness is “immeasurable,” then our failures can never outstrip his grace. Our moments of feeling utterly overwhelmed by life are where God’s heart lives. Our most haunted pockets of failure and regret are where his heart is drawn most unswervingly. If his grace in kindness is “immeasurable riches”—as opposed to measurable, middle-class grace—then our sins can never exhaust his heart. On the contrary, the more weakness and failure, the more his heart goes out to his own.