Friday, August 7, 2015

Matthew 5:5 An Attitude of Meekness - Devotional Scripture


Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.  Matt. 5:5


The Beatitudes is a list of attitudes that should be found in every believer.  One of these characteristics is meekness.

Meekness is power under control.  It is power that doesn’t strike back and doesn’t react and doesn’t fight against God or man. In meekness we stop and realizes that God is the Creator and He is the ruler over everything.  And because I know that I can rest in Him and trust in Him  I can allow God to govern me rather than the circumstances or the situations or the people that are around me.” Meekness is submission of our thoughts, our ways, and our evaluations of a situation to God.

When I try to be strong in my own might, when I try to take care of the situations, or manipulate them,  When I try to make things work out the way that I think they ought to work out, then I am not walking in meekness and it wears me out. Meekness is putting yourself in a yoke with God and knowing that God is stronger than you and He’s able to pull the load so the load comes off of your shoulders because you’re resting in the Lord.

The meek do not fret but the meek wait upon the Lord. The meek cry out to God. They mourn over sin. Blessed are the meek, those that submit to God, and those that become pliable in His hands, those that allow God to mold them and shape them in every circumstance of life because they will inherit the earth.

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