Jesus calls us to His rest, and meekness is His method. The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of the world is not worth the effort. He develops toward himself a kindly sense of humor and learns to say, “Oh, so you have been overlooked? They have placed someone else before you? They have whispered that you are pretty small stuff after all? And now you feel hurt because the world is saying about you the very things you have been saying about yourself? Only yesterday you were telling God that you were nothing, a mere worm of the dust. Where is your consistency? Come on, humble yourself, and cease to care what men think.”
–A. W. Tozer
The word “meek” has developed a connotation of weakness in American society. We value boldness and pride and strength and independence much more than humility and meekness. But the values of God’s Word remind us that God’s priorities and kingdom qualities are very different than our world’s. Humility and meekness are not signs of weakness, but are signs of servanthood – and Jesus was the great Servant King and our greatest example of how to be a person of strength who willingly exhibits humility and meekness. One of our biggest problems with embracing these character traits is that we care too much what men think while caring little about what God things. May we follow the model of Jesus and cease to care what men think and begin caring greatly for what God thinks.