The Weekly Update – Dec 1st, 2025
Here are some more extracts from ‘Gentle and Lowly’ – The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers’, a great book by Dane Ortlund.
“ Christ gets more joy and comfort than we do when we come to him for help and mercy.”
“ The reason that Jesus is in such close solidarity with us is that the difficult path we are on is not unique to us. He has journeyed on it himself. It is not only that Jesus can relieve us from our troubles, like a doctor prescribing medicine; it is also that , before any relief comes, he is with us in our troubles, like a doctor who has endured the same disease.”
“ He knows what it is to be thirsty, hungry, despised, rejected, scorned, shamed, embarrassed, abandoned, misunderstood…He know what it is to be lonely. His friends abandoned him, when he needed them most; had he lived today, every last Twitter follower and Facebook friend would have un-friended him when he turned thirty-three – he who will never un-friend-us.”