A Meek and Quiet Spirit

A Meek and Quiet Spirit

“Now the man Moses was very meek, more than all men who were on the face of the earth.” Num. 12:3.

A woman’s true adornment is a meek and quiet spirit. This adornment is very becoming in God’s eyes. It suits her so nicely. It is also very befitting in the eyes of husbands. They are so quickly tired of the opposite because it is not at all becoming.

It is also very becoming for men, especially in days of adversity! “The meek He guides in justice . . . .” Ps. 25:9. He cannot guide the others, because they know everything so well themselves; they are so restless, they grumble and talk so that they are unable to hear God’s voice and leading. “God beautifies the meek with salvation.” Ps. 149:4. The others beautify themselves with the opposite of salvation: for example, clothing, conceit, and boasting!

“A meek heart is life to the body, but envy is rottenness to the bones.” Prov. 14:30. Therefore meekness furthers the body’s health, whereas the opposite harms the body, besides damaging a person’s heart, spirit, and mind.

Jesus said about Himself, “I am meek and lowly in heart . . . .” Matt. 11:29. Then He exhorted others to learn from Him. How has it gone with that, my dear friend?

Calmness and humility belong together. Much noise and talking also go together with conceit, imagined greatness, haughtiness and willfulness, in addition to the desire to rule and lord it over others. An overseer or leader of an assembly must be meek. 1 Tim. 3:3. All others are to be saved to the extent that they also become meek (among other things), through his ministry and his example which will strengthen them in their faith to achieve it.

Unfortunately, the vast majority of believers are filled with the glaring opposite of what they should be filled with. They possess an incredible amount of imagined knowledge, plenty of self-will and willfulness, stubbornness, criticism, and contradiction. They possess these in such large amounts that it puts pressure on them from the inside and virtually flows out at any time!

Oh, how I wish they would all repent from all this and be quick to learn meekness and humility from Jesus Christ! May it happen as soon as possible!!!

Both brothers and sisters should immerse themselves in 1 Peter 3:4-7! Obedience and submission are not just something we must do; they are primarily a direct, gracious assistance in learning meekness and humility.

When we are to learn to be obedient and to be in submission, we need to use heart, arms, legs, and backs, while the mouth can be in absolute rest until obedience and submission have been achieved. Then we can make good use of the mouth to express our joy and thankfulness and other things that do not contradict the laws of meekness and humility in the least!!!

“Let your meekness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.” Phil. 4:5. What is the reason that meekness is not present on the day of adversity or when people are busy with the mundane tasks of life? It is because the Lord is not near such people! They are truly far from God’s face, much further than they themselves realize or think—these people who otherwise seem to know so very, very much! It is easy to understand that a person would become noticeably more careful and cautious and not so impertinent and daring if he had God in mind.

“Be . . . gentle, showing all humility to all men.” Tit. 3:2. This is an extremely strong exhortation to be quiet, even very quiet! However, you are not quiet when you rejoice and praise God with all of your heart and when you cry out to God with a loud voice as it is written about Jesus in Hebrews 5, or when He cried out at the feast (John 7:37), or when you speak God’s Word in truth and spirit, swinging the sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, discerning the thoughts and intents of the heart! Heb. 4:12.

It is in the spiritual as it is in the natural realm: each for its own use.

However, when you have been robbed, cheated, wronged, contradicted, and defamed, and when things are challenging in every possible way, how fitting, proper, beautiful, and delightful it is to stand there quietly and gently and in goodness, thinking of something good to do to the person who is evil. Then you truly have heaven on earth, that is, heaven in your heart. The Lord be highly praised!

Oh, that everyone would repent from his dregs and hasten to learn from Jesus Christ! When it has become dead quiet on the day of trial, calm even in the deepest recesses of one’s heart, it will also become visible on the surface—to everyone who is present. Then every wretch can realize that one’s kingdom is not of this world. Of course this is the intention, that all doubt in this regard shall be eradicated.

It is amazing how hotheaded most people are! And when we have eventually experienced thorough salvation from all of our dregs, it is also amazing how gentle and quiet and meek we have become. Then, we have truly and noticeably entered into His rest.

“Let him show by good conduct [behavior] that his works are done in the meekness of wisdom.” Jas. 3:13. In other words, meekness is part of wisdom, and usually people do not have much of it until the very end and, in many cases, not even then. That people imagine they have much wisdom in spite of this fact makes matters even worse.

Because of this lack of wisdom, there is also a lack of meekness on the day of adversity. This is in perfect agreement with these words: “For anger [irritation] rests in the bosom of fools.” Eccl. 7:9.

However, gentleness and meekness thrive in the bosom of the wise. Hallelujah!

The opposites of meekness are: anger, wrath, rage, irritation, unrest, commotion and clamor, shouting, blasphemy, mocking, envy, jealousy, anxiety, quarreling, arguing, ambition, conceit, being puffed up, my own strength, empty talk, verbosity, chatter, impatience, inability to bear, dissatisfaction, complaining, boasting, conceit, pomposity, vain ambition, preacher’s itch, exerting authority, violence, vehemence, contention, vengeance, bitterness, suspicion, criticism, slander, judging, feeling insulted, being offended, being annoyed, taunts, and many more.

How comforting and hopeful it is that it does not necessarily have to take such a long time to be rid of all these dregs as has so often been the case!

May it succeed fully for everyone who reads this, and for many others.