“He that is not with [M]e is against [M]e…”  (Luke 11)

“…I am meek and lowly in heart…”  (Matthew 11)

 

Reader, Look at the Scripture texts again. The first (1st) text states, if you aren’t on the Speakers side, if you don’t agree with the Speaker, if you don’t see things like the Speaker  does, you are the Speaker’s enemy, period.  In the second (2nd) text the Speaker says, of Himself, in essense, I am humble. The Person, the August and Regal Person, in both passages is the Same Person. That Person Is the Lord Jesus. He declared and proclaimed, all that He was, is, and will be, all that He does, all that He says, is due to the Father’s pleasure and purpose.

I remember when George W. Bush expressed the exact same position with the exact same Words, as the first (1st) passage above, the media, persons, people, and peoples hit the roof, went nuts, had coronaries, went ballistic, freaked out, and went crazy. The media agents jumped and shomped upon these words; their eyes rolled back into their heads like a Great White Shark, or  like the girl in “the Exorcist,” their heads spun around, their eyes rolled up into their heads, and they vomited all manner of upchuck in black and white.

The “jounalists” called him arrogant, cowboy President and they could not accept the idea or thought of America acting on her own, reponding unilaterally, and not being concerned with nations that decried his decision.  Bush said, any country that is not with the U.S.A. are choosing to be against the U.S.A, and to be seen as an enemy & in the line of fire. Persons, the media, other political leaders could not handle this, Reader, know this, persons do not like a person with a strong personality. Persons do not like someone or something they cannot understand or identify with. Persons who are confident, content and complete in their make-up or wiring are not well received by those that are not confident, content, and complete.

The person, as described above, in the second (2nd) half of the paragraph, are thought to be overbearing, overwhelming, pushy, arrogant, alpha, conceited, self-focused, etc. Depending on the person, the adjectives, in the last sentence, could be fitting but for others it is not fitting. This is where humility and arrogance can get confused in the mind’s of observers.

In the Scriptural texts above, Christ said plainly, if a person is not with Him, loyal to Him, devoted to Him; if a person does not see Him as Preeminent, that person is not worthy of Him and will be considered an enemy.  Reader, Bush was escoriated by the world for making the same comments after 9/11. So, a person that says such things will be thought arrogant, yet Christ also says He is meek and lowly in heart or humble.  WHAT????

Let us put this into perspective, this Man, the Lord Jesus, drew a line and said, if you are on My side of this line, you’re good, if you’re on the other side, you’re doomed.  That is a staggering and shocking statement and we see by G.W. Bush, how most persons will respond or react to someone who says something like that. Christ said many things that caused hearers to want Him dead and some of these hearers even tried to kill Him!!! Some wanted to stone Him and others wanted to throw Him off a precipice.

Reader, Why does a meek and humble Man provoke such reactions?  Isn’t a meek and humble person more or less, a wall flower?  Isn’t the meek and humble happy to be called, Matt, and be walked on?  The meek and humble would never dare to incert himself into the business of others, would he? The meek and humble would never boast upon his or her talents or gifts, would they? The meek and humble would never say, “Hey, pay attention to what I am saying,”  or  “If ye believe not that I am [H]e, ye shall die in you sins.”

The meek and humble doesn’t do and say the things written in the above paragraph, do they? Reader, the meek and humble do all manner of great exploits, the meek and humble have terrific confidence, the meek and humble are resting assured, the meek and humble are complete in their person and they know it and they demonstrate it and, at times, it is thought or seen to be arrogant, haughty, high minded, uppity, and prideful, by the truly arrogant, haughty, high minded, uppity, and prideful.

How can these traits exist together in one (1) person and at the same time?  Why and how do the meek and humble, draw such negative and vitriolic attention upon themselves if they are quiet, meek and humble?

The world and the church have misunderstood humility and meekess. Reader, meekness implies strength. Strength and power is a necessity and is required in the meek.  Confidence, comfort, and a sense of completeness or certainty is necessary for a person to be humble. A person must have many traits, gifts, benefits that could cause the pride of life, in order for a person to be humble.

If a person is weak and fearful and gives in to that weakness and fear, that person cannot be meek. A person who has nothing, is worthless, and a drag or stain on society, IN THEIR OWN MIND, is not a humble person.

The truly meek and humble person is a spiritual person. Pauls says, “…to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Meekness, humility, peace and the abundant, abounding, and abiding life is spiritual and not carnal. No one can be meek in the flesh, no one can be humble in the flesh, no one has peace from God, in the flesh, and no one can live a vibrant, exciting, hope-filled, abundant, abounding, and abiding life, lest they be spiritually-minded.

To be carnally minded, Paul says, in contast to the spiritully minded, is death. To be carnal is to live a spiritually boring and dead-like life. To be carnal is to walk as (unsaved) men walk. It is to have a saved soul and a lost life. Reader, Reader, Reader, Be spiritually minded, where your heart and mind is there will be your treasure.  If you are carnal or worldy, your treasure is man-made and materialistic and life is ALL about you, all about the here and now. You are living the best life you will ever live in relation to Eternity. When you enter Eternity in a lost, carnal or worldly state, you enter into torment. If you are a Christ-ian who is carnally minded, when you enter eternity, you will suffer loss.

In summary: We should see that a Christ-ian can glow with confidence, comfort, completeness and certainty; it will be derided and thought to be arrogant and un-Christ-ian by the fleshy and carnally minded to be sure.  Just as the Pharisee labels Christ with arrogance, blasphemy, and wicked-mindedness, so will the carnally minded, though they may be saved, will label you. So, how can a Christ-ian have all of this and still be meek and humble?

The answer is simple, Nothing you are, in the spirit or what good you do in the flesh is of you, it is all Him, “Ye can do nothing without [M]e.” All righteous exploits, works, and service done, in His Name and done by or through faith, is wrought by God through you. Even faith is not of you, “[faith]  is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God.” Meekness and humilty is knowing and acknowledging all that one is, all of what one has, all of what has been and will be, is of God, is from God, and is for God.

Some might think, “Even so, I do not want to be thought of or judged as being arrogant or conceited.”  Paul has a word for you, “But [s/he] that is spiritual[lly minded] judgeth all things, yet [s/he] is judged of no man. You see, the Christ-ian is to judge all things, “Try the spirits,”  “Prove all things” whether they be good/bad,  right/wrong,  true/false. We judge things through the Word of God, we are  judges, we are saints, we are the called, (OWN IT, RECKON IT, UNDERSTAND IT) yet we remain meek and humble, because everything is from God.

Again, (I’m inculcating you, beloved reader), weak persons cannot be meek, only strong persons can be meek.  A fearless person cannot be courageous, courageous implies acting in spite of fear. The Christ-ian person who is CONFIDENT, COMFORTABLE, CERTAIN, CONTENT and COMPLETE is the meek and humble servant of God.

“In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence.”  (Proverbs 14)

All of the above explains how and why, “Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the [new] earth.