The Meekness Of Christ

by J. Miller | Category: Voices From The Past - Extracted From Jottings | Apr 1981

"I am meek and lowly in heart", was the true testimony of the Lord to His

disciples concerning His own character. He was meek; that is He was mild, ready to forgive, not given to retaliation. And how true this was, for when on the cross, instead of calling upon God to punish His enemies, He prayed:

"Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do".

He was also lowly in heart. He was humble, modest, not arrogant; One who was oppressed, yet He humbled Himself. Pride was far removed from Him. Though originally in the form of God, yet He humbled Himself and took the form of a servant, and being made in the likeness of men, He further humbled Himself to death, the death of the cross (Phil. 2). The death of crucifixion was a death given to common criminals,. one of the most shameful and painful of deaths; yet such was the lowly mind of the Lord that He humbled Himself to such a death. Had He been other than lowly in heart, such a course would have been impossible to' Him.

His meekness and lowliness were to be seen on the day of His public entrance into Jerusalem as Zion's King. He was "meek (lowly, Zech. 9:9), and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass". The ass was a borrowed one for the occasion, so that the Word of God might be fulfilled; for the Lord had not one of His own. Many a time it is written of the Lord walking, but only once that He rode, during His earthly sojourn, and on that occasion He must ride, for the Scripture could not be broken. But though He was the King of Glory, the choice He made long before was that He would ride into Jerusalem on an ass's colt.

The circumstances of His public entry into Jerusalem were shorn of all the embellishment and pomp of previous arrangement. The two disciples who brought the ass spread their garments upon it and He sat thereon: while the multitudes spread their garments in the way and cut down branches of trees and spread them in the way. The multitudes who went before Him and they that followed after cried: "Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest".

Never had the earth seen so great a royal procession, and never again will one so important be seen until God brings in His Firstborn again into the inhabited earth; when the heaven will be opened, and He will be revealed coming upon a white horse, the armies of heaven following Him upon white horses. Back to the earth He will come in stately array midst the hallelujahs of the heavenly host, and "Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord" shall rise from God's elect.

J. Miller | Apr 1981
Voices From The Past - Extracted From Jottings