MEEKNESS

This is only a short break and then I will return to Isaiah.

Matthew 5:5-“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth” (ESV).

What is meekness anyway? Have you ever wondered that? Webster’s defines it as enduring injury with patience and without resentment; deficient in spirit and courage; not violent or strong.

I recently came across a Bible devotional study book I went through in the summer 2000. Curious about what I wrote in it, I skimmed through it and came across a page in which I wrote about meekness. And to my annoyance, God used my own words to smack me upside the head and say, “Hey, get with it, Stephen.” I thought it would be beneficial to share those words with you:

“Sometimes [you] might [have] a goal… and [you] try to get there, [you] try to reach it on [your] own. For example, there is this beautiful place [you] want to get to, but [you] want to get there as quickly as possible. [You] want to take the easiest way possible—the highway—and [you] don’t care what kind of country, wilderness, beauty, [you] cut down to pave that road. However, the road may still be beautiful. But God might want to get [you] to that beautiful spot via a different route or He may want to take [you] somewhere else. Yet the road God wants [you] to take is almost always the narrow, dirt road. It is less traveled and the travel will always be harder and it will probably take a longer time [getting there]. But at the end of the road you look back and see that the scenery was more beautiful and the place where you ended up, if it is different, will be more beautiful. And over all you will appreciate everything a whole lot more.

“Meekness… is willingly following God through the backwoods and dirt roads rather that making Him drag you through.”