“Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth”
Matthew 5:5
This has been a rough week, a hard month, and a year that keeps throwing roundhouse rights.
I’ve been meditating on the Sermon on the Mount and the Beattitudes. The verse I’ve quoted is one which I feel is very timely for us as a church.
At face value, these words cause us to furrow our brow and wonder what Jesus was talking about. The word meek in English is one we are not familiar with.
In English, meek means enduring injury without resentment, deficient in spirit or courage, easily imposed upon, weak, submissive.
Not exactly a word which inspires us. Our definition of either masculinity or femininity would reject this picture.
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