Blessed are the Meek

I greet you in Jesus' precious Name. It is Monday morning the 19th of June 2023, and this is your friend Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start with Psalm 37:11:

But the meek shall inherit the earth,
And shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

Then we go to Matthew 5:5 Jesus says:

Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Meekness does not mean weakness, not at all! In fact, the meekest man who ever lived, according to the Bible, was Moses and there was nothing weak about Moses. He took a whole nation through the desert for forty years - no weak man could have ever done that! The Lord wants you and I to be meek. Meekness is not a natural quality of man but rather something that needs to be grown by spending much time in the presence of the Lord. I would like to use the analogy of a spirited horse which is under saddle. It is a beautiful sight to see. You see, a wild horse that has been tamed to accept a saddle and a harness, a bridle is a picture of the bible's concept of meekness. Monty Roberts, The Horse Whisperer, has got an amazing ability to gentle a horse - he doesn't break horses' spirits, he gentles them. He can get a wild horse to come into meekness in an hour. He can put a saddle on a horse that is never been ridden before. He did it in front of Queen Elizabeth and her mother and the old lady, because both of them loved horses very much, he brought that old lady literally to tears because she saw how that horse, a thoroughbred, was tamed, gentled into meekness, in an hour and had a jockey on its back. We need to allow the Holy Spirit to gentle us. 

Do you see in the scripture which I quoted, Psalm 37:11, that the Bible tells us those who are meek delight themselves in the abundance of peace? A meek person is a peaceful person. If you want the Lord to gentle you as it were, to become meek, you have to submit yourself to the Holy Spirit just like a horse submits himself to his rider. The horse is not broken, it is in complete control. When the rider tells him to run, he runs immediately but he learns submission and meekness is what is required in these days.

Jesus bless you and have a lovely day.