Years ago when I heard that word I thought UGH...that isn't me! Does it have to be? However at the time I really didn't know what meekness meant. I thought I did but I was confused. On a daily devotional that I receive by email I was so blessed by this.....
Meekness is teachability. "The meek will he teach his way" (Psalm 25:9, KJV). It is the readiness to be shown, which includes the readiness to lay down my fixed notions, my objections and "what ifs" or "but what abouts," my certainties about the rightness of what I have always done or thought or said. It is the child's glad "Show me! Is this the way? Please help me." We won't make it into the kingdom without that childlikeness, that simple willingness to be taught and corrected and helped. "Receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls" (James 1:21, KJV). Meekness is an explicitly spiritual quality, a fruit of the Spirit, learned, not inherited. It shows in the kind of attention we pay to one another, the tone of voice we use, the facial expression.
Boy could I read that each and every morning! I desire to walk in His truths and His ways and having a teachable heart is a great start.
4 comments:
That is a great truth. You are a great example to me of meekness. Love you sister! Debra
thank you so much for teaching that truth to me. I will have to read it couple of times to get it down. I admire your walk with the Lord. HOpe you are having a fabulous friday..what a beautiful God given day outside!
Good one! You know, I know some people with the last name of Meek... I always wonder how that happened? Good little devotion for the day, though. Loved it, you little meek one!
Hi sissy! I don't think I ever wrote back to your email about this to me....but yes, I do remember that conversation. I think certain 'spiritual' words have different connotations to us. In this day and age, meek isn't a word that we hear in a positive sense, outside of Biblical teachings. A definition that has always stuck for me is that meekness isn't weakness but meekness is power under the control of the Holy Spirit. Thanks for sharing!
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