Gentle and Lowly by Dane Ortland

This book came out at just the right time. Ortland has written a book full of comfort and grace. At the end of the day he does a compelling job of showing just how much we need to adjust our thinking about who God is and how He has revealed His heart through Jesus. This is a fine work challenging incorrect thinking about the grace of God.

This book is a great piece revealing to the reader hos God’s heart is bent towards people with a desire to extend grace and compassion. Before you think this is all about unicorns and cotton candy fluff it is not. Dane never minimizes God’s holiness or righteousness. He never portrays God as a soft old man willing to overlook any and everything. Instead he goes to show that even when God’s disciplines and corrects, His hearts desire is mercy and grace.

Ortland walks us through the Scripture as well as puritan writers revealing the true heart of God, and God that desires the best for His people and will go to the greatest lengths to make that happen. And even when there is discipline, there is always grace.

The purity of God’s heart causes Him to abhor evil, and he hates to see the evil in His people, but His deepest heart is their restoration

Yes, God’s thought are higher than ours even when it comes to realizing how His heart yearns for our restoration.

Fight those preconceived notions about what you may think you know about Christ’s heart and realize the strength of His mercy and grace waiting for you. No matter how dark your world seems, God’s heart turns toward you.