Meekness
Rev. Justin Smidstra explores the biblical virtue of meekness as a spiritually-minded gentleness and humility that flows from a right relationship with God, contrasting the world's disdain for meekness with Scripture's affirmation of it as blessed and worthy of inheritance. Using extensive Old Testament and New Testament passages, particularly Matthew 5:5 and examples from Moses and Christ himself, the author demonstrates that meekness is not weakness but a Christ-like quality that God greatly values and rewards.
Rev. Justin Smidstra, pastor of First Protestant Reformed Church in Holland, Michigan Meekness. It's a quality that the world disdainfully considers weakness. Sadly, a similar disdain for it can crop up in the church too, if meekness is looked at with a carnal eye rather than the eye of faith. The meek, the flesh says, are pushovers, doormats, wobbly-kneed, double-minded compromisers. The meek, Christ says, are blessed, for they shall inherit the earth (Matt. 5:5). And the Bible says more: the...
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