The First Day of Lent - Our Gentle Jesus

I published a book that is on Amazon called "A Lenten Sojourn" and I plan on reading it and thinking about it for the Lenten season.
You can find it, if interested, at

http://www.amazon.com/Lenten-Sojourn-Elliott-Pollasch-ebook/dp/B00TMICMZC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1424265793&sr=8-1&keywords=a+lenten+sojourn

Yet I plan on posting some thoughts...just because I want to. I'm reading another book by one of my favorite authors - Dallas Willard - during this season. Dallas Willard is now home with the Lord and it was his daughter who assembled and edited the notes of his writings to put the book together.

The book is entitled "The Allure of Gentleness". I love the idea of it. I want to be known as a gentleman, and I once heard someone describe me as a "Gentle Bear" (I am a big man).

What we know of Jesus is his love, grace, mercy...and straight-forward, prophetic, no-nonsense, approach to the proud.

Yet this is also what we need to know:

Matthew 12:18-21
¹⁸ “Behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved with whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my Spirit upon him, and he will proclaim justice to the Gentiles.
¹⁹ He will not quarrel or cry aloud, nor will anyone hear his voice in the streets;
²⁰ a bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not quench, until he brings justice to victory;
²¹ and in his name the Gentiles will hope.”

This is our Savior...the one who gives us hope and yet is gentle, dealing with our questions, doubts and fears.

This is Jesus' style, and my desire is for his life to invade, saturate, envelope my own.

Peace

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