Meekness

Often people associate meekness with timidity and weakness. No, that’s opposite of the Godly meek. It’s power and ability placed under your control minus ego and pride.

Meekness is all the fruits of the spirit in concert and working under your direction. Meekness is when you blend peace, love, trust, patience, forbearance, gentleness, temperance, and regulate them with strength, righteousness and reasoning.

Humility and self-control are closely related and associated with meekness. Only the humbled heart can be meek. It is to have power and ability but not negatively influenced or swayed by them.

Meekness is like having a loaded 12-gauge shotgun, having the will to use it, knowing exactly when and how to use it and yet not affected, impressed or vaunted by having such lethal power in your possession.

But what really must be understood is the foundation in which meekness is built upon. Godly meekness is founded on, “equanimity of spirit that is neither elated nor cast down, simply because it is not occupied with self at all” (Vines Expository).

The tranquil soul and spirit, that can only come from having Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, is the base in which all powers and abilities rest for the meek. Christ in you manifests the temperance and self-control necessary to be able to responsibly use, or not, any or all of the gifts of the spirit.

Bill Hitchcock