JESUS the MEEK ONE: “Learn from Me, for I am meek…” (Mt 11:29). Meekness is not weakness, but strength in control. How do we learn meekness? We first must be ready to “receive with meekness the engrafted word” (Jas 1:21), submitting our lives to its truth. We can bear “the fruit of the Spirit” which is “meekness” (Gal 5:22-23) by daily walking in fellowship with the Spirit (v 25). This is practiced when we “put on…meekness” as our daily attire. And how? The next verse tells us: “bearing with one another, and forgiving one another…even as Christ forgave you” (Col 3:12-13). In fact, Paul tells Timothy, we should “follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness” (1 Tim 6:11). How’s that for a daily “to do” list? Peter reminds us that, while the world does not value meekness, the opposite of “self-assertiveness training,” a “meek and quiet spirit…in the sight of God [is] of great price” (1 Pet 3:4). If so, we will be ready to witness to the lost (3:15) and restore the fallen (Gal 6:1) with Christ’s own meekness.