A Reflection On Gentleness

When I want to reflect God’s tenderness to the world

If the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) is God’s display of His character through the church to a searching world, then gentleness is one of the most needed elements of that display. The world does not know of this gentle God—it portrays Him as either viciously judgmental or blandly irrelevant. It has not seen enough examples of righteous, patient, redemptive gentleness. Be one of those examples. Find a hurting person and demonstrate God’s gentle touch.

Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near.

Philippians 4:5, NIV