Sunday, December 11, 2011

Meekness

What does it even mean to be meek?  Meek rhymes with weak, but someone can be both strong and meek!


 


Restrained strength.  Knowing that you are right, but deliberately failing to assert your dominance.  If this is meek, why would Jesus ever claim that it is good to act this way?


 


Have you ever been in an argument where you knew you were in the right - the other side being either too stubborn to admit, or simply couldn't understand?  Rather than escalating so that you can prove yourself right, or even so that you can receive the justice due to you, giving up the argument and trusting in God - that is meekness.


 


Sometimes it is suffering as Jesus did, like a silent lamb to the slaughter.  Sometimes it is letting the other person have the last say.  Restrained strength, a virtue, trusting God for deliverance or justice.


 



2 comments:

  1. Thanks Sam!
    Good thinking.
    Hebrew being a picture language, pictures humility as a war horse under the command of his rider. I think we're all sick of the "little Jesus meek and mild" syndrome.
    Thanks for the post!
    Blessings and Peace~

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  2. Fantastic imagery! Thanks for sharing Bob.

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