“Blessed are the meek,
for they shall inherit the earth.”[1]
As you hear of Jesus’ blessing on the meek, do you consider it a description of the kind of people who earn God’s favour, or do you receive it as a description of what a person will look like when they are under the favour of God?
When we consider that meekness is a description of people who have come to the end of themselves and now depend on another, it can hardly fit the picture of someone trying to depend on themselves to do something to earn God’s blessing.
The very nature of meekness is that people see in themselves nothing by which they could ever deserve anything from God at all, and yet they see in Jesus everything they could ever need, and so their hearts reach out to him in faith. This is a significant part of receiving Christ in salvation, that we have come to the end of ourselves and see in Jesus the person on whom we want to depend.
However, meekness is also a significant aspect of freedom in Christ since it describes the way we stop depending on ourselves and begin depending on Christ for what we need. Whatever we have previously handled in sarky and self-protective ways have not worked, and so we genuinely desire to trust Jesus to do what he has promised.
This home church consideration of meekness encourages us once again with the gracious activity of God to lead us to rest in his grace. I hope you will join us on the journey.
© 2018 Monte Vigh ~ Box 517, Merritt, BC, V1K 1B8 ~ in2freedom@gmail.com
Unless otherwise noted, Scriptures are from the English Standard Version (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.)
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