“Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.”
(Matt. 5:5)
Someone has said, “The Beatitudes are the attitude-to-be-at as a Christian.” The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of rules and regulations; it is the life we live once we yield to the indwelling Christ. At our conversion Jesus imparts to us His disposition. The workday world of this generation needs desperately to see His Beatitudes manifested once again in the life of His people.
One such Beatitude is meekness. If you take a concordance and search this word in your Bible, you’ll find God puts a high priority on this godly characteristic. Every man and woman who names the name of Christ should show forth this inward trait, outwardly. I say inward because of two main scriptures. [Jesus said’]“ I am meek and lowly in heart.” (Matt. 11:29); and to the godly woman it says, “But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit” (1 Pet. 3:4).
Most today mistake meekness in the life of the godly. It is not weakness, timidity, fearfulness, or cowardness. It is inward moral strength held in check. Like a broken horse, it is energy or power under control. I like to say, “Meekness is strength with a bridle.” Moses was a man’s man, yet we are told, “Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.” (Num. 12:3) Christians today would not consider him so.
Paul said, “Shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?” One can possess both!
“Meekness is a quiet strength.”
(rds)
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