Blessed Are The Meek

The meek are sweet and mild, slow to anger;
They do not strive to have things done their way;
Gentle, they pose to others no danger;
Quietly trusting Jesus always are they!
Yet, there comes a time when each must stand fast;
Like Moses, when the Egyptian Pharaoh balked
At freeing the Hebrews, God's wrath at last
Was loosed; then first-borns the death-angel stalked;
Like Jesus, when money-changers were cleared
From the temple, and Pharisees were named
Hypocrites; the meek at times must be feared;
Though placid, when God's will's blocked, they're untamed!
To earth the King is coming back in glory;
The meek shall own it, to complete its story!

"Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." (Matthew 5:5)

The men who lead the nations of earth have practiced war endlessly, spilling the blood of the young, and they will continue until Jesus returns. He will put an end to war forever, and He will give the earth to the meek to rule, for they are peacelovers; they will glory in its abundance. Meekness is a personality trait that Jesus commands us to develop if we become His followers. It is a "fruit" of the Holy Spirit (See Galatians 5:22-23), or God who indwells the believer and guides him in developing sanctification, which means the changing of our worldly ways into those like Jesus was and taught. The nature we possess at birth is full of selfishness, anger, greed, and similar traits; if we are to become more like Jesus we must develop gentleness, for one, and other Christlike characteristics.

Moses was said by God in Numbers 12:3 to be "very meek, above all the men on the face of the earth." Yet, he was not always docile and mild. Facing the Pharaoh of Egypt in his ten demands that he free the slave Israelites, he demanded their freedom in the name of God; upon being refused, he called down the series of plagues that culminated in the death of every first-born son in Egypt, and led the free people across the Red Sea to Canaan. At Mt. Sinai, when Moses came down with the two stone tablets into which God had personally engraved the Ten Commandments with His finger, His anger at them for making and worshiping a golden calf caused him to dash them to the ground, where they were broken into pieces. He was not meek when it came to upholding God's will, and neither should we be. Meekness is not a sign of cowardice or weakness. It is indicative of humility, which God respects. When Jesus' apostles argued over which would be greatest in heaven, Jesus told them it would be the one who was humblest among them. We need to develop and practice meekness; we need to rid ourselves of anger, resentment, grudge-holding, self-gratification and aggrandisement.