To be biblically meek is not to be timid or weak in the
common sense of the word. To be biblically meek is to subjugate our own will to
God’s will and purposes. It is true that if we are meek before God it will
follow that we will be meek before our fellow man. A person cannot be meek
before God and yet selfishly impose their will over others who God loves and has
created. This does not mean however that
we must be timid and quiet before our fellow man. We can be meek in imposing
our own selfish will and bold in expressing the will and nature of God.
God is the author and creator of our original unfallen
nature, so to be meek before God is to begin to access humanity’s original God
reflecting nature. In Geneses 1:26-28 humanity,
man and women, is made in the image and likeness of God. That image and
likeness of God was to be expressed in the dominion over and the subduing of
the earth. It is impossible to be timid or week and accomplish the God given
command of subduing the earth. Humanity’s meekness was expressed as the
revealing of the will of the living God in the earth and humanity’s meekness is
still expressed in this way.
If we are meek in our own will and boldly express the
will of God, which is our original nature, we can begin the God given command
to have dominion and subdue the earth. This dominion is not expressed by ruling
over and subjugating our fellow man in the flesh, but by taking spiritual
dominion. As we expand the kingdom of God and spiritually subdue everything that
exalts itself against the idea of God we inherit the earth as joint heirs with
Christ, Romans 8:17. It is true that we also look forward to a future rein with
Jesus but in the kingdom of heaven we can enjoy our inheritance of spiritual
dominion as joint heirs with Christ right now.
Next week: Blessed are Those Who Hunger and
Thirst…
Poet Ntwadumela
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