Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth (Matt. 5:5).
By the universal voice of his army, Godfrey of Bouillon was saluted king of Jerusalem upon the capture of that city. A crown of gold was brought to him, but he set it aside, saying, "It is not fit for me, a mortal man and a sinner, to be crowned with gold in the city where Christ, the Son of God, was crowned with thorns."
"Meekness does not assert itself, because it has something better to assert," writes a contemporary. Jesus said, "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself" (Matt. 16:24). And He bids us, "Learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart" (Matt. 11:29). Jesus, the brightness of His Father's glory, "counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant" (Phil. 2:6, 7, ASV).
There was no bigotry in Him, no cold austerity. He who beholds Christ, "The Terrible Meek," as Charles Rann Kennedy calls Him, will yield self to the disposal of the Holy Spirit. The apostle Paul could say, "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me" (Gal. 2:20).
"It was through the desire for self-examination that sin entered into the world, and our first parents lost the dominion over this fair earth, their kingdom. It is through self-abnegation that Christ redeems what was lost. And He says we are to overcome as He did (Rev. 3:21). Through humility and self-surrender we may become heirs with Him, when the, 'meek shall inherit the earth' (Ps. 37:11)" (Thoughts From the Mount of Blessing, p. 17).
MEDITATION PRAYER: "For thou, O God,...hast given me the heritage of those that fear thy name" (Ps. 61:5).
By the universal voice of his army, Godfrey of Bouillon was saluted king of Jerusalem upon the capture of that city. A crown of gold was brought to him, but he set it aside, saying, "It is not fit for me, a mortal man and a sinner, to be crowned with gold in the city where Christ, the Son of God, was crowned with thorns."
"Meekness does not assert itself, because it has something better to assert," writes a contemporary. Jesus said, "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself" (Matt. 16:24). And He bids us, "Learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart" (Matt. 11:29). Jesus, the brightness of His Father's glory, "counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant" (Phil. 2:6, 7, ASV).
There was no bigotry in Him, no cold austerity. He who beholds Christ, "The Terrible Meek," as Charles Rann Kennedy calls Him, will yield self to the disposal of the Holy Spirit. The apostle Paul could say, "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me" (Gal. 2:20).
"It was through the desire for self-examination that sin entered into the world, and our first parents lost the dominion over this fair earth, their kingdom. It is through self-abnegation that Christ redeems what was lost. And He says we are to overcome as He did (Rev. 3:21). Through humility and self-surrender we may become heirs with Him, when the, 'meek shall inherit the earth' (Ps. 37:11)" (Thoughts From the Mount of Blessing, p. 17).
MEDITATION PRAYER: "For thou, O God,...hast given me the heritage of those that fear thy name" (Ps. 61:5).
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