Our sermon today is on living
with a meek and quiet spirit. That sounds easy, especially if the husbands are
asking their wives to do this while they themselves thrash around like a bull
moose, neither meek nor quiet. But the great Moses, the man who stood up to
Pharoah, is described as the meekest man on the Earth.
At the core, I believe a meek and quiet spirit is learning
to submit to God in all things and relinquish control to God’s will and
providence of those things that you really cannot control anyway. This amounts
to a host of things, your husband’s behavior, your children’s affection, your
wife’s respect or lack thereof, the hard providences of God in our lives, the
government leaders that you live under, your boss and his demands, your
teachers and their peculiar ways.
God gives us many opportunities to display a meek and quiet
spirit. When we do so, it reveals to ourselves and others that we truly believe
that God is ultimately in control of all things. Phil. 4:6 Be careful (full of care, worry, anxiety) for nothing; but in every thing by prayer
and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
So, to the extent that you are
unwilling for God to be in control, you need to, as the old saying goes, let go
and let God. This letting go is confession and repentance, the letting God, is to
be meek and quiet, concerned for nothing, resting in the Lord.
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