heart is a matter of life. It is what makes us the human being each of us is. The heart drives all we do. It is who we are.3 And when Jesus tells us what animates him most deeply, what is most true of him—when he exposes the innermost recesses of his being—what we find there is: gentle and lowly. Who could ever have thought up such a Savior? “I am gentle …” The Greek word translated “gentle” here occurs just three other times in the New Testament: in the first beatitude, that “the meek” will inherit
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