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Meek Men and Women, September 6
Examples of Sanctified Lives
He will beautify the meek with salvation.
Psalm 149:4
The most precious fruit of sanctification is the grace of meekness.
When this grace presides in the soul the disposition is molded by its
influence. There is a continual waiting upon God and a submission of
the will to His. The understanding grasps every divine truth and the
will bows to every divine precept, without doubting or murmuring. True
meekness softens and subdues the heart and gives the mind a fitness for
the engrafted word. It brings the thoughts into obedience to Jesus Christ.
It opens the heart to the Word of God, as Lydia’s was opened. It places
us with Mary, as learners at the feet of Jesus. “The meek will He guide
in judgment, and the meek will He teach His way.”
The language of the meek is never that of boasting. Like the child
Samuel, they pray, “Speak, Lord, for Thy servant heareth.” When Joshua
was placed in the highest position of honor, as commander of Israel, he
bade defiance to all the enemies of God. His heart was filled with noble
thoughts of his great mission. Yet upon the intimation of a message from
Heaven, he placed himself in the position of a little child to be directed.
“What saith my Lord unto His servant?” was his response....
Meekness in the school of Christ is one of the marked fruits of the
Spirit. It is a grace wrought by the Holy Spirit as a sanctifier, and enables
its possessor at all times to control a rash and impetuous temper....
Meekness is the inward adorning, which God estimates as of great
price.... He who garnished the heavens with the orbs of light has by the
same Spirit promised that “He will beautify the meek with salvation.”
Angels of heaven will register as best adorned those who put on the Lord
Jesus Christ and walk with Him in meekness and lowliness of mind.
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