Ephesians 4:2
More than a redundancy of words and description, Paul follows up the word lowliness with MEEKNESS.
Years ago the great pastor, author, educator, radio host (Insight for Living) Chuck Swindoll gave the perfect analogy and definition for this most biblical of words.
Describing the beautiful iconic mascots of a popular beverage, the Clydesdale horses. Seeing first their sheer girth and height. Swindoll marveled at the bone, muscle, and sinew of these majestic creatures. Weighing on average 2000 lbs a piece. This particular team of animals were trained to such a degree that they would trot in unison. On the tips of their hooves! Looking more like four legged ballerinas than the beasts of burden they were bread to be.
You see, the size and silhouette were impressive no doubt. But it was the amount and degree of control these living tanks of muscle and mane, that had the preacher in awe. Commenting profoundly on the MEEKNESS of these wonderful things. Swindoll frames with his unique way this MEEK power train as “Power under control…”
If you might like to study biblical meekness, you need not look any farther than Moses in the OT. Check out numbers 12:3.
And of course Jesus in the NT. Having the POWER to call down 12 legions of angles (see Matt 26:53), Jesus the suffering servant, choose rather to go to the cross on our behalf.
How meek do you tend to be? What power and right do you lay aside in the MEEKNESS of Christ, to the glory of God?
Regardless know this, MEEKNESS ain’t WEAKNESS!
DOTG @ dhbclv
More than a redundancy of words and description, Paul follows up the word lowliness with MEEKNESS.
Years ago the great pastor, author, educator, radio host (Insight for Living) Chuck Swindoll gave the perfect analogy and definition for this most biblical of words.
Describing the beautiful iconic mascots of a popular beverage, the Clydesdale horses. Seeing first their sheer girth and height. Swindoll marveled at the bone, muscle, and sinew of these majestic creatures. Weighing on average 2000 lbs a piece. This particular team of animals were trained to such a degree that they would trot in unison. On the tips of their hooves! Looking more like four legged ballerinas than the beasts of burden they were bread to be.
You see, the size and silhouette were impressive no doubt. But it was the amount and degree of control these living tanks of muscle and mane, that had the preacher in awe. Commenting profoundly on the MEEKNESS of these wonderful things. Swindoll frames with his unique way this MEEK power train as “Power under control…”
If you might like to study biblical meekness, you need not look any farther than Moses in the OT. Check out numbers 12:3.
And of course Jesus in the NT. Having the POWER to call down 12 legions of angles (see Matt 26:53), Jesus the suffering servant, choose rather to go to the cross on our behalf.
How meek do you tend to be? What power and right do you lay aside in the MEEKNESS of Christ, to the glory of God?
Regardless know this, MEEKNESS ain’t WEAKNESS!
DOTG @ dhbclv
