The Quest for Meekness and Quietness of Spirit
"Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth." Matt. 5:5.
There are two types of calmness in this world. There is the calmness of the stagnant pool and the calmness of the ocean's depth. The first is calm because it has nothing to say. The second is because it doesn't feel the need to say it. The second calm is the glorious meekness of this passage. Christian meekness doesn't speak because it's empty but because it's full. Why is it that we admire the humility of Jesus Christ? There are millions of meek people in the world, yet they are not Divine. Why did Christ's meekness make Him great? Because in Him, we find the calm we would have but do not possess. A calmness that does not exist because it needs to but because it is. Beneath the deep surface of Christ's divine life lie depths unimaginable,
a voice unspeakable,
feelings unfathomable,
and power immeasurable.
We know instinctively because no man takes His life from Him; He has the power to lay it down and take it up again. (Jn. 10:18) We know that if He wanted to, He could have brought His legions, and turned Gethsemane into Sinai, and changed the calm into one Almighty storm. We admire the strength that did not do it.
So, the believer looks at Christ's meekness, and bows before that marvelous strength. Here the believer learns another lesson in Christ’s school. (Mat. 11:29) In seeing His meekness, we become more amazed at His cross than His crown. Christ seems greater in what He gave up than what He possessed.
Because His glory was in His shame1,
His majesty was in His self-surrender; 2
His King-hood in is His servant-hood;3
His power to rule by His ability to bear.4
That without complaining, He took the sins of all His people (Isa. 53:7), and His gentleness made Him great. By His meekness, He inherited the earth.
Isaiah 53:1-3 Philippians 2:5-8 Genesis 2:25 Genesis 3:7-10 Hebrews 12:1-3 1 Peter 2:4-6
Luke 22:41
Philippians 2
Matthew 28:18