ChrisJD
Apr 20, 2008
"But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:"
- 1 Thessalonians 2:7(KJV)
"But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:"
- 1 Thessalonians 2:7(KJV)
Thank you, Chris...
That is a very lovely and meaningful passage. It made me recall this one from Matthew chapter 11 (which was the verse that convicted me to give my heart to Christ as a teen):
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[b]29[b]for I am meek and lowly in heart
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:-)
"now, Moses was the meekest of all men on earth"...
just something about that verse goes real deep in me. Well for one (as it seems to me), God's Spirit was interjecting the story to want to tell this about this man with (Now). And, this was God's Spirit standing up for the man when someone else was accusing him of something that seemed surely a sin. Now, the story actually (as i was typing) reminded me of Hosea too.
What's fascinating to me about what the Spirit wrote is with all the anger Moses had, God still says he was meek.
This issue of meekness and humility is just bothering me now in all different aspects of my life. One of the ways God has showed me my own depravity is the way i have approached the Bible.
our Bible doesn't say compare scripture with scripture. It states, compare spiritual things with spiritual. I have a huge issue when we have built theology on technicalities, because we know verses from all the bible so well, our theologies about everything is correct.
I am thinking about a recent thread and i have wondered what other christians from around the world would say if they had a voice to write about what they have experienced regarding the subject.
All this to say, I wish I had a teachable spirit, as much as i thought i did have
the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
tell me, does the implication of the verse above stop because we have been regenerated by the Spirit of God?
A missionary in Jamaica was once questioning some little boys on the meaning of Matthew 5:5 and asked, "Who are the meek?" A boy answered, "Those who give soft answers to rough questions." We shall do well to remember this child's definition. The one who has wisdom in his head and heart does not need to shout at others. Wisdom speaks softly and persuasively, instead of impelling and forcing. Through the use of our tongues people will know whether we are wise or not. As that great theologian, Charles Hodge, said, "The doctrines of grace humble a man without degrading him and exalt him without inflating him."
-from 2000+ Bible Illustrations
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