Meekness: Power Under the Control of God

 

 

Good day! I’m Duane Matz and this is Today’s Living Word:

 

We’ve been talking about the trait of meekness. Meekness is not weakness, rather it is power under control. Perfect meekness would be power under the control of God and where else would you want to tap into a source of power?

 

The meek are weak in just one sense and that sense is they are no longer relying on their own puny power of the flesh, but rather relying on the controlled power of the Holy Spirit. Zec 4:6 So he answered and said to me: "This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: 'Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,' Says the LORD of hosts.

 

How foolish to trust in anything else but God's power? 1 Cor 1:25 says that the weakness of God  is stronger than men.

 

 

Paul saw the value of  surrendering his strength to God when he was battling a thorn in the flesh

 

2Co 12:9 And He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness." Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

 

This is soooooo important that God personally spoke it to Paul! And it is nothing but a paraphrase of the third beatitude. Blessed are those who become weak and  rely on the perfectly controlled strength of God.

 

Meekness in the Old Testament is foreshadowed for us through the first born children. The first-born are symbols of strength and the whole Old Testament system of offerings is about consecrating the first born, because they are symbols of  giving up our strength to God. Pharaoh wouldn't give up his strength and so God took it from him, when He eliminated his first-born.

 

Seek meekness! Seek to live in the controlled perfect power of God!

 

 2Co 13:4 For though He was crucified in weakness, yet He lives by the power of God. (He lived meekly) For we also are weak in Him, but we shall live with Him by the power of God toward you. 

 

Oh yes, blessed are the meek. It’s controlled strength from God and those who have it shall inherit the earth!

 

I’m Duane Matz and that’s Today’s Living Word