Gentle Jesus! Is he really meek and mild?
The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Galatians 5:22. Dear Friend and Reader, Did you ever recite the children’s prayer? Gentle Jesus, meek and mild, Look upon this little child. Pity my simplicity Suffer me to come to Thee. Charles Wesley. When we think of Jesus, his gentleness and self-control are foremost. He showed it by his lovingkindness. We respond to his gentleness when he invites us to rely on him. “Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” Matthew 11:28,29. Jesus not only said he was humble, but he lived it. At dawn Jesus appeared again in the temple courts among the gathering, and he sat down to teach them. The law teachers and the Pharisee...