Matthew 5:5
Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
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Meek does not mean weak! It takes real strength to be meek! That is what I wanted to say — but it is simply not quite true, it is a paradox! What it takes to be meek is obedience and a dying to self! True Christianity is about doing the will of God without regard to cost or consequence. “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous! Do not tremble or be dismayed, for YHWY your God is with you wherever you go.” {Jos.1:9}

The followers of Jesus Christ are to be (if you excuse the mixed metaphors) Little lambs who are gentle and innocent as doves {Matt.10:16} and as courageous as lions. {Prov.28:1} We have been conditioned and trained by the world to aggressively pursue the things that we want and to stand up and be men! Taught that “real men” are strong and tough and can take care of themselves. And unfortunately, all too often it is the ‘church’ that teaches that same thing. I have been taught otherwise: The Lord is my light and my salvation; Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the defense of my life; Whom shall I dread? {Ps.27:1}

We are not to fight to defend our faith or our Lord, as Peter learned when he drew his sword and struck a servant of the High Priest cutting off his ear to 'protect' Jesus. The Lord responded by healing the injured man and saying to Peter that everyone who would take up the sword would perish by the sword. He could have asked His Father who would have sent Him thousands of angels. {Mat.26:51-53} It was true then and true today.

Our fight, our warfare, is not against flesh and blood but against the true enemy, the devil and his many minions. We have been well equipped with the full armor of God {Eph.6:13-17} which includes the one weapon we have been given to defeat that enemy—the sword of the spirit, the Word of God. Meekness requires that we be strong in the Lord and the strength of His might. {Eph.6:10} That weapon, wielded with meekness, love and humility will bring about the promise of inheriting the new earth, along with new heavens in which righteousness dwells. {2Pt.3:13} That should help us today to understand and live what Paul called 'the more excellent way':

“If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
    And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.
    Love is patient, love is kind, and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails; ...” (1 Corinthians 13:1-8)

GOD TEACHES THE HUMBLE HIS WAY