Melba Rosa’s Reviews > Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers > Status Update

“His capacious affections for his own are not threatened by their fickleness, because pouring out of his heart is the turbulence of divine longing. And what God wants, God gets.”

“He isn’t like you. Even the most intense of human love is but the faintest echo of heaven’s cascading abundance.”

“Perhaps Satan’s greatest victory in your life today is not the sin in which you regularly indulge but the dark thoughts of God’s heart that cause you to go there in the first place and keep you cool toward Him in the wake of it.”

“The one who rules and ordains all things brings affliction into our lives with a certain divine reluctance. He is not reluctant about the ultimate good that is going to be brought about through that pain; that is indeed why he is doing it. …His deepest heart is merciful restoration.”

“The Holy Spirit makes the heart of Christ real to us: not just heard, but seen; not just seen, but felt; not just felt, but enjoyed. The Spirit takes what we read in the Bible and believe on paper about Jesus’ heart and moves it from theory to reality, from doctrine to experience.”

“Given their sinfulness, they are shocked to find that their sins cause him to be all the more ready to plunge them into his heart.”

“But when we choose to sin - though we forsake our true identity, our Savior does not forsake us. These are the very moments when his heart erupts on our behalf in renewed advocacy in heaven with a resounding defense that silences all accusations, astonishes the angels, and celebrates the Father’s embrace of us in spite of all our messiness.”

“He knows us to the uttermost, he saves us to the uttermost because his heart is drawn out to the uttermost. We cannot sin our way out of his tender care.”