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Meek People


My super senior year of college I was able to experience a great testimony from the men in the fellowship I attended.  It was the men's small group called Meek People.  We know meekness as an adjective from Matthew 5: 5 "Blessed are the meek for they will inherit the earth."  We see meekness as acts of humility, but it is an adjective, not a verb.  So what is meekness?

That summer before fall semester a man named David was preparing, digging, and seeking the meaning of meekness, and how can we become a people of meekness.  His vision for the men of our fellowship was to become a meek people, leading with meekness.  That summer he came to know meekness as a mosaic of sharing life together, experiencing humility together, experiencing prayer and grace together, living out love together, and gaining aged wisdom together.  Meekness comes from a collection of life's broken pieces, receiving grace, and piecing them together into something beautiful.  This is how we become meek people.  

The visual that David saw was a turtle mosaic.  We all know turtles to be wise, aged, traveled, and enduring, peaceful, and graceful.   (Oogway-Kung Fu Panda, TMNT, the idea of Sea Turtles in Hawaii being protected).  The in physical nature the entire back of a turtle itself looks like a tiled mosaic; metaphorically we see that as we slowly journey through life, our mosaic of bits and pieces grow into a beautiful back bone that protects our inner being.

As meek people we should not be aiming to do meek acts, we become a people that characterize meekness.  It is by the great gift of grace we can become a meek people. We will never be able to accomplish the great commission if we are not a meek people.  May our prayer be that we become meek servants so that we may inherit the earth.  
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