The Quiet Strength of Meekness

I remember when my mother bid us goodbye to travel to the United States of America to improve her life and make a way for us. It must have been two or three o’clock in the morning when we children said goodbye to her before climbing back into bed. In my eleven-year-old mind, it would be only a short while until we would be with her again.

And though we communicated constantly and had a close relationship with her over those years, it would be twenty-seven years until we would live together again in the same space. At different periods throughout this almost three-decade wait, I often asked the ineludible question, “How long?” There were many difficulties and disappointments along the way, but I eventually had to learn to wait in meekness until the time had come.

Meekness is an attitude of willing submission to God without resistance. In a world where everyone wants to be dominant, there is a special call on the lives of God’s daughters to be meek. God is pleased when we wait on Him to make things happen for us.

This is our surety as women. When we are treated unjustly, unkindly, or indifferently by others and are tempted to retaliate, be meek.

When we have been praying for a prodigal child for decades, an issue of blood, a husband, a promised child of our own womb, or a thorn in our flesh that persists, be meek. To those who abide in meekness, Christ has promised so much more than we can imagine, both now and when He returns. You see, that attitude of quiet surrender when the tough times unsettle us is an unconquerable force that will refine us like nothing else! All of us are waiting, enduring, hoping, and experiencing a lot, but our true beauty lies in the submission with which we choose to walk daily despite our circumstances. Sister, how meekly have you been waiting? Will you join me in repenting for our lack of meekness, for murmuring and resisting when we should have been trusting? Let us ask the Holy Spirit to give us a spirit of meekness that will truly reflect the beauty of Christ’s character in us, for “a meek and quiet spirit . . . is in the sight of God of great price” (1 Peter 3:4, KJV).

Lleuella Morris