Learn of Me; for I am meek…

Just how important is meekness in the estimation of God? The Apostle Peter, who wrote by the inspiration of the Spirit, declared it to be a grace of the highest order. He says of the “ornament of a meek and quiet spirit’’ that it is “in the sight of God of great price” (I Pet. 3:4). And the Apostle Paul puts equal emphasis on this particular fruit of the Spirit. In the epistle to the Romans he advises that, with respect to honor, we should be “preferring one another” (12:10), that is, we should...