What is meekness?

Well, I can for sure tell you what it is NOT! It is not me! And, I am ashamed to say so. But, here is what Matthew Henry says that it is....."Meekness is a victory over ourselves and the rebellious lusts in our own bosoms; it is the quieting of intestine broils, the stilling of an insurrection at home, which is often times more hard to do than to resit a foreign invasion. It is an effectual victory over those that injure us, and make themselves enemies to us, and is often a means of winning their hearts.

He goes on to say..." The law of meekness is if your enemy is hungry, feed him , if he is thirsty, not only give him a drink which is an act of charity, drink with him in a token of friendship and true love and reconciliation and in so doing, heap coals of fire upon his head"....here to me is the interesting part, the coals of fire are not to consume him, but to melt and soften him that he may be cast into a new mold...."

Meekness again is a victory over Satan, the greatest enemy of all. Now, what is meekness but the soul's agreement with itself? It is the joint concurrence of all the affections to the universal peace and quiet of the soul, every one regularly acting in its own place and order and so contributing to the common good. Next to the beauty of holiness, which is the souls agreement with God, is the beauty of meekness which is the soul's agreement with itself."

So, needless to say, I have a long long way to go in the area of meekness. If you are wondering, the name of the book is THE QUEST FOR MEEKNESS AND QUIETNESS OF SPIRIT......Matthew Henry