Matthew 5:5 Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
Meekness is not the same as weakness, it literally means gentle and it requires great strength to be gentle. Meekness is power under control. The horse is a very powerful animal and it has not lost any of its power when it is harnessed. The animal has become more useful to its master when its strength is under control. When we surrender our lives to Christ Jesus and place ourselves under His control, we become useful, to carry out His will on our lives. When we submit our lives to Christ Jesus and yield to his will, we display a controlled strength, which is meekness. This is not to say we must live our lives with our heads hung low or allow ourselves to be pushed around. What this is pointing out is that we live with a humble heart, quick to forgive, following the example of our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus. This verse also has a reward that goes along with all of this, we will inherit the earth.
A Christian shows a more effective power posture down on his or her knees than we do from trying to stand tall, with a puffed-up demeanor. When we, as followers and believers in Christ Jesus humble ourselves before God, He will bathe us with all the power needed to live in this fallen world, with hope and assurance (1 Peter 5:6; Philippians 4:13).
A.W. Tozer once wrote:” The meek man is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of his own inferiority. Rather he may be in his moral life as bold as a lion and as strong as Samson, but he has stopped being fooled about himself. He has accepted God's estimate of his own life. He knows he is as weak and helpless as God declared him to be, but paradoxically, he knows at the same time that he is in the sight of God of more importance than angels. In himself, nothing; in God, everything. That is his motto."
A truly meek person, through humility, will comprehend that they have the resources needed for this life through God and not of ourselves. Our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus when He was on this earth was meek because He possessed all the resources of God. His walk on this earth was not carried out through self-pugnacious and self- importance. He lived His earthly life with a sense of equability that was not exhilarated or despairing, simply because His day was not spent busily engaged in self.
Meekness is the state of being that one will learn to enjoy who God is and what He has in store for all of those that love Him. There are no worldly formulas that will produce meekness in one’s life, it comes only through God, by the indwelling of His Holy Spirit (James 1:21). It is obvious that Jesus was not referring to the inheritance of the earth of today, that will one day be destroyed with fire (2 Peter 3:10), He is referring to the New Heaven and The New Earth (Revelation 21:1-4). The New Heaven and the New Earth will be populated with only meekness, for there will be no desire for self-advancement because everything will have its foundation in Christ Jesus, the one that suffered and died on the Cross of Calvary so that we might know eternal life, and true meekness.
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