BLESSED ARE THE MEEK

 

EVENING DEVOTION by James Smith

APRIL 30
 
Matthew 5:5
Blessed are the meek: for
they shall inherit the earth.
 

Meekness is very different to weakness and yet the one is sometimes mistaken for the other.

 

The strongest minds are sometimes adorned with the grace of meekness. The meek quietly submit to the will of God, they reverence his word, and tremble at his rod.

 

Instead of the spirit rising against God, and murmuring at his dispensations, it bows like th yielding plant to the breeze, and says, “The will of the Lord be done.”

 

The meek silently receive God’s commands, patiently, copy the Saviour’s example, and wisely cherish the influences of the Holy Spirit.

 

They walk softly with God, and prudently with men; not seeking their own glory, but the honour of their God and Saviour. They are quiet lambs, not roaring lions; gentle doves, not destroying vultures. They benefit all around them, as the sheep, not bite and devour as the wolf.

 

Such are like Christ, and they are blessed with Christ.

 

They can claim but little now, but they shall inherit the earth by-and-by.

 

Their very state of mind is a blessing; they live above the storms that agitate others, or bow while others break. They are a blessing, while others are a curse.

 

Jesus, to my poor sinful heart
The grace of meekness now impart!
Fain would I, Lord, though poor and weak,
Be like thyself, in all things meek.
 

James Smith