There is meekness toward God, and it is the easy and quiet submission of the soul to his whole will, according as he is pleased to make it known whether by his word or by his providence.
a. It is the silent submission of the soul to the word of God: the understanding bowed to every divine truth, and the will to every divine precept; and both without murmuring or disputing. The word is then an engrafted word when it is received with meekness (James 1:21), that is, with a sincere willingness to be taught and a desire to learn. Meekness is a grace that cleaves the stock, and holds it open, that the word, as the imp or shoot, may be grafted in; it breaks up the fallow ground and makes it fit to receive the seed; it captivates the high thoughts and lays the soul like white paper under God’s pen. It opens the ear to discipline, silences objections, and suppresses the risings of the carnal mind against the word, consenting to the law that it is good and esteeming “all the precepts” concerning all things to be “right” even when they give the greatest check to flesh and blood.
b. It is the silent submission of the soul to the “providence” of God concerning us.
(1) When the events of providences are grievous and afflictive, displeasing to sense, and crossing our secular interests, meekness not only quiets us under them but reconciles us to them, and enables us not only to bear but to receive evil as well as good at the hand of the Lord, which is the excellent frame that Job argues himself into (Job 11:10). It is to kiss the rod, and even to accept of the punishment of our iniquity, taking all in good part that God does, not daring to strive with our Maker, no, nor desiring to prescribe to him, but dumb and not opening the mouth because God does it. Let him do what he will, for he will do what is best; and therefore if God should refer the matter to me, says the meek and quiet soul, being well assured that he knows what is good for me better than I do for myself, I would refer it to him again. He shall “choose our inheritance for us” (Psalm 47:4).
(2) When the method of providence are dark and intricate and we are quite at a loss what God is about to do with us, “his way is in the sea, and his path in the great waters, and his footsteps are not known,” clouds and darkness are round about him, a meek and quiet spirit acquiesces in an assurance that all things shall work together for good to us if we love God, though we cannot apprehend how or which way. It teaches us to follow God with an implicit faith, as Abraham did when he went out not knowing very well whom he followed (Heb. 11:8). It quiets us with this, that though what he doeth “we know not now,” yet we “shall know hereafter” (John 13:7). When poor Job was brought to that dismal plunge that he could not way trace the footsteps of the divine providence, but was almost lost in that labyrinth, how quietly does he sit down with this thought, “But he knows the way I take; when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold” (Job 23:8,9).
(Excerpts taken from Matthew Henry’s “The Quest for Meekness and Quietness of Spirit”)
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