Don’t Mistake My Meekness for Weakness – Spiritual Commentary
May 6th, 2016 CEO
By Elder Hugh Tarrer
In 1st Samuel 30:6 David encouraged himself in the Lord. Contextually we have to understand what David was going through at the time. He and his army were rejected by Philistinian princes, and sent back on a 3 day journey to their home of Ziglak. Upon arrival they find that the Amalekites have burned-out, looted, and depleted their homes, coupled with the fact that their children and wives have been captured and taken prisoners. To further add insult to injury David’s own men are blaming him for what has occurred.
I am reminded of a line in the Rudyard Kipling If- when he says If- you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, David’s approach to it all was going to God to get answers. This must be the identical approach for us that call ourselves His children. We must all know how to, because there will be times in all of our lives when your world goes topsy-turvy. Your situation seems grim. Your money is funny and your credit won’t get it. It will seem like our families, and our jobs have gone to hell in a handbasket. The cat is chasing the dog, and if trouble were money we would be a millionaires.
But you have to know how to encourage yourself in the Lord. There is a power that rests deep in our psyches past where any psychiatrist or therapist can dwell. There is a level of rigidity in our spines that is hard enough to match that of tempered steel. Why you say? Because you are a child of the most-high God and if he promised you he will never leave nor forsake you. He is obliged to do just that. Because Hebrews 6:18 tells us of the two immutable truths; He cannot lie and He cannot change.
David not only knew who he was; but who’s he was. There are times when people will doubt you and even blame you as they did David. When they simply cannot see who you really are, or the power you possess, but God, who searches the internal and looks inward, will make room for your gift. There was a movie in the 90s called Any Given Sunday and a young Jamie Foxx played a new upstart quarterback named Willie Beamon. I am reminded of a scene when a reporter interviewing Beamon alludes to the fact that he is a new star now. Willie Beamon says. “I was always a star, ya’ll just didn’t know it yet”. There is a revelation of a difference between meekness and weakness. Weakness is lacking the power to possess the means.
Meekness is not being mean in your possession of the power.
Don’t Mistake My Meekness for Weakness – Spiritual Commentary
In 1st Samuel 30:6 David encouraged himself in the Lord. Contextually we have to understand what David was going through at the time. He and his army were rejected by Philistinian princes, and sent back on a 3 day journey to their home of Ziglak. Upon arrival they find that the Amalekites have burned-out, looted, and depleted their homes, coupled with the fact that their children and wives have been captured and taken prisoners. To further add insult to injury David’s own men are blaming him for what has occurred.
I am reminded of a line in the Rudyard Kipling If- when he says If- you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, David’s approach to it all was going to God to get answers. This must be the identical approach for us that call ourselves His children. We must all know how to, because there will be times in all of our lives when your world goes topsy-turvy. Your situation seems grim. Your money is funny and your credit won’t get it. It will seem like our families, and our jobs have gone to hell in a handbasket. The cat is chasing the dog, and if trouble were money we would be a millionaires.
But you have to know how to encourage yourself in the Lord. There is a power that rests deep in our psyches past where any psychiatrist or therapist can dwell. There is a level of rigidity in our spines that is hard enough to match that of tempered steel. Why you say? Because you are a child of the most-high God and if he promised you he will never leave nor forsake you. He is obliged to do just that. Because Hebrews 6:18 tells us of the two immutable truths; He cannot lie and He cannot change.
David not only knew who he was; but who’s he was. There are times when people will doubt you and even blame you as they did David. When they simply cannot see who you really are, or the power you possess, but God, who searches the internal and looks inward, will make room for your gift. There was a movie in the 90s called Any Given Sunday and a young Jamie Foxx played a new upstart quarterback named Willie Beamon. I am reminded of a scene when a reporter interviewing Beamon alludes to the fact that he is a new star now. Willie Beamon says. “I was always a star, ya’ll just didn’t know it yet”. There is a revelation of a difference between meekness and weakness. Weakness is lacking the power to possess the means.
Meekness is not being mean in your possession of the power.
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