MEEKNESS IS A GREAT STRENGTH
In evaluating our strength and weaknesses as well as determining their corresponding opportunities and threats, WE STAND BEFORE A TREMENDOUSLY GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO REACH PERFECTION SOONER THAN OTHER NATIONS! TO US WHO ARE THE LAST (LEAST) AMONG NATIONS, IT CAN BE SAID, “THE LAST SHALL BE THE FIRST, AND THE FIRST SHALL BE THE LAST”!
Why do I say that?
Well, as I’ve said, MEEKNESS IS OUR STRENGTH. Many nations who are great in this world do not possess that much humility (meekness) that the Negroid-Brownish people possesses.
We are holding a blessing in disguise.
Why do I say that?
Let quote the Lord Jesus Christ!
“[It is 7th spirit of Mehumer (Meekness-Humility-Mercy)] that affects all the preceding ones by giving them the divine-spiritual perfection and also helps the human soul to attain to the full and true rebirth in the spirit.
“This is the reason why the Lord Himself urged all of you to love God and your neighbor, adding: ‘Be merciful, as also your Father in heaven is merciful, and be meek and humble, as also I am meek and humble with all My heart!”
“Thus, the Lord bade you, men, to develop above all the Seventh Spirit because in this last spirit all the preceding ones are contained and being developed. Therefore, he who zealously develops and strengthens this last spirit develops and strengthens also the preceding ones and has taken the shortest and surest road to perfection. However, he who begins his development with one or several of the preceding spirits will attain to the full perfection of life only with great effort, or not at all, because these earlier spirits do not contain the Seventh Spirit, whereas the latter does contain all the ones preceding it.
“And behold, therein consists continuously the fall of the angels or the thoughts and ideas out of God – which we may call the forces constantly flowing from God -, so long as they in their entirety in man’s nature have failed to develop the Seventh Spirit within them to true and supreme perfection. For all the preceding spirits have been partly given, more or less freely, to almost all created beings, whereas the Seventh Spirit must be won by man himself with much diligence and zeal.
“As only by acquiring this spirit do all the preceding six gain their life’s true significance and true purpose, the whole man does only through it win the fullest freedom and independence of life.”[1]
The reason why Jesus emphasized to us, His disciples, to focus on the acquisition or learning of this 7th Spiritual attribute saying, “Be meek, be humble, be merciful” is clearly stated: This spiritual quality is the key to perfection! It is the shortest road to perfection. Through this, all the other important qualities can be easily acquired.
Of course, of all seven qualities of God (namely: love, wisdom, will, order, earnest, patience and meekness) Love is the main traits of God and the rest serve as its support, yet, without the 7th quality of humility, we will not easily learn to Love! Without humility, it seems impossible to get to come to love God above all and our neighbor as ourselves!
In this task of acquisition, humility may not be the end; love is the end and the aim. But humility is the best means. As a matter of fact, humility is the only to love!
The Lord said, “the Seventh Spirit must be won by man himself with much diligence and zeal”. Behold, we have not won it by much diligence and zeal. We have a sort of ‘inherited’ it from our forefather Cain. We have it as a bonus for the poverty of the mind and heart and will that we come to inherit from our converted patriarch Ethiope.
Through so much sufferings that we still have today, we learn humility. This Negroid race has been subjected to so much humiliation, insults, discrimination, sufferings. From the Philippines, to Africa, to America and to all other places they dwell, they are being oppressed by stronger and wiser people of other race.
I say again, “But we must appreciate that MEEKNESS is a strength. The greatest strength of all. It is not a weakness. It holds the key to our faster arrival at perfection, because through humility, the attributes from the heavens can be more abundantly given.
For “blessed are the poor [humble] in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven…
Blessed are those who are meek for they will inherit the earth.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness [knowledge] for they shall be filled.
Blessed are the merciful for they shall be shown mercy…
Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called sons of God.
Blessed are those who persecuted because of righteousness,
For theirs is the kingdom of God.”[2]
Never in my life as a Christian have I read this verses with the realization in my mind that this is referring to our Negroid race more than any other race! Since I started reading the Bible in 1980, I had always thought that these verses referred to individuals or collective Christians. Only now that I realize that more than any race, these verses describe and refer to the much-oppressed Negroid race!
I am not saying that other races are not humble or do not have a degree of humility. I am just saying that never before am I thinking that God, in His great mercy and boundless love and wisdom, HE HAS GIFTED US WITH THE GREATEST GIFT OF ALL, THE GIFT OF MEEKNESS!
Yes, He said that this is less of a gift, but as a result of man’s efforts [or should I say, much sins and sufferings], but still I would say that meekness could not sprout had not the Father of mercy sown mercy in the first place. So, as He sowed, so He reaps. He sowed mercy in us, He is now reaping mercy from us. Elsewhere, the Negroid people are referred to as “the children [that is, offshoot, the products, or results of] God’s mercy.” We are children of mercy.
And that is an accolade, which we must not be proud of [let’s beware of pride, remember?] but rather be glad of and to thank the Father the most.
We are also among the which the Lord honored by saying, “He who sinned much [and consequently, repented much] loves much”!
Let us hold fast GENTLENESS AND HUMILITY. And allow no trace of pride and arrogance to ever take abode in our mind and heart.
Rather than losing it, let us preserve and further cultivate our gentleness as a people. And added to that, let us ASK, SEEK AND KNOCK FOR THE DIVINE WISDOM to make a perfect and complete and balanced IMAGE OF JEHOVAH, who revealed His purpose for creating man to wit: “Let us make man after our own likeness and image”![3]
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