The Fruit of the Spirit
MEEKNESS:
This means to be gentle, tender, humble,
mild, considerate, but strongly so. Meekness has the
strength to control and discipline, and it does so
at the right time.
Meekness has a humble state of mind:
The meek person loves people and loves peace, meaning
he walks humbly before men regardless of their status
and circumstance in life.
Meekness has a strong state of mind:
it looks at situations and wants justice and right
to be done, but always at the right time against the
right thing!
Meekness has strong self control: The
meek person controls his spirit and mind. He controls
the lust of the flesh and doesn’t give way to
ill-temper, retaliation, passion, indulgence, or license.
The meek person dies to himself and does what God
wants done.
Meekness: accepting God’s dealing
with us as good without resistance, a fruit of power,
lowly before God and humble before man.
Opposites: arrogance, haughtiness, pride,
cockiness, egotism, vanity, conceit.
Perversions: weakness, wimpy, cowardly,
spinelessness, timidity.
Galatians 6
1 BRETHREN, IF any person is overtaken in misconduct
or sin of any sort, you who are spiritual [who are
responsive to and controlled by the Spirit] should
set him right and restore and reinstate him, without
any sense of superiority and with all (in a spirit
of MEEKNESS) gentleness, keeping an attentive eye
on yourself, lest you should be tempted also.
