Matthew 5:5

Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

From Background Notes [BN] for November 10^th & 11^th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

What the popular mind may count as a hero, often turns out to be a tragic one. Shakespeare grasped this in several of his plays, including Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and King Lear. In each of these there is both a hero and a character that fits the model of “the meek.” Writes Wilbur Dunkel:

For the Christian man of today, has meekness ceased to be a virtue? It certainly has, if we think of meekness in the unfavorable sense of submissive, spiritless, and easily cowed. But in the positive meaning of "meek," … being gentle, courteous, kind, merciful, free from self-will, and humble are attributes of Christ Jesus. And before us stands the archetypal figure presented in Philippians 2: 6-8: "Have this mind among yourselves, which you have in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant [slave], being born in the likeness of men."  [BN, 12]

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