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

Author:Dane C. Ortlund [Ortlund, Dane C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Christian Living
ISBN: 9781433566165
Google: dijbDwAAQBAJ
Amazon: B086GWZ6CY
Publisher: Crossway
Published: 2020-03-18T00:00:00+00:00

It would be cruel to suggest that human friendship is irrelevant once one has been befriended by Christ. God made us for fellowship, for union of heart, with other people. Everyone gets lonely—including introverts.

But Christ’s heart for us means that he will be our never-failing friend no matter what friends we do or do not enjoy on earth. He offers us a friendship that gets underneath the pain of our loneliness. While that pain does not go away, its sting is made fully bearable by the far deeper friendship of Jesus. He walks with us through every moment. He knows the pain of being betrayed by a friend, but he will never betray us. He will not even so much as coolly welcome us. That is not who he is. That is not his heart.

As his friendship is sweet, so it is constant in all conditions. . . . If other friends fail, as friends may fail, yet this friend will never fail us. If we be not ashamed of him, he will never be ashamed of us. How comfortable would our life be if we could draw out the comfort that this title of friend affords! It is a comfortable, a fruitful, an eternal friendship.8

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