Dane C. Ortlund

Many of us approach the Bible not as oxygenating, but as suffocating.

“Gentle and lowly.” This, according to his own testimony, is Christ’s very heart.

We might feel a little bashful or uncomfortable or even guilty in emphasizing God’s tenderness as intensively as his wrath. But the Bible feels no such discomfort.

Fallen, anxious sinners are limitless in their capacity to perceive reasons for Jesus to cast them out. We are factories of fresh resistances to Christ's love.