“Blessed [inwardly peaceful, spiritually secure, worthy of respect] are the gentle [the kind-hearted, the sweet-spirited, the self-controlled], for they will inherit the earth.
Matthew 5:5 AMP
Praise and honour be unto God for this beautiful day and the opportunity to rejoice and be glad in it.
We continue with Jesus’ teaching dubbed the “Be Attitudes ” and today we consider meekness as the qualification to inherit the earth.
Blessed are the meek, some have mistakenly associated meekness with weakness. This is certainly not the case. As we can see from the Amplified version meekness connotes gentleness, self controlled, inner strength and sweet spirited.
It therefore takes a lot of discipline to be meek and it is no surprising that the reward is to inherit the earth, that enjoy God’s manifold blessings of His footstool. Meekness is also borne out of maturity in the things of the Spirit.
May the Lord help us to be gentle, sweet spirited, kind hearted and self controlled so that we can access His manifold blessings of inheriting the earth especially the peace of God. Amen
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