Humility & Meekness
Medicine for a Stress-Free Life

By MoriEl Randolph | November 30, 2007

If you live in America, there's an 87% possibility that you profess to be a follower of The Christ or Christian. As such, you are probably aware that The Christ taught His followers to put on humility and meekness. But how do we put it on and keep it on.

Everyone may have moments when they are humble or meek, but it's generally out of necessity, not preference.

So, as believers and followers of The Christ, how do we make humility and meekness a part of us? I believe that we are only able to do so once we realize and accept that we have nothing to prove.

The Christ could be humble and meek because He knew who He was and what He could do. He knew who His FATHER was and HIS power. Therefore, HE was confident but not prideful. He could be assertive when necessary but always meek in character.

As His followers, we can put on humility and meekness as a part of our character when we come to the following points in our lives:

· The point of confidence in our position with THE ALMIGHTY and HIS Son.
· The point of confidence in our relationship with THE ALMIGHTY and HIS Son.
· The point of knowing who we are and what we are capable of.
· The point of dissatisfaction with pride or aggressiveness.
· The point of satisfaction and contentment with putting on humility and meekness.
· The point of knowing THE ALMIGHTY and what HE's capable of.
· The point of longing to manifest THE ALMIGHTY as HIS Son did while on earth.

When we've come to the above points in our lives we know that we have nothing to prove to others who may refute or challenge us. We can live less stressful lives because we are not tossed to and fro or disturbed by the false opinions of others. Only then can we truly appreciate and know-as HIS WORD says-"if THE ALMIGHTY is for us, who can prevail against us"; and thus humility and meekness can become a part of us.

But what do we do in the meantime, as we go about arriving at these points?

The answer: we must practice. We must practice both humility and meekness. We must get used to replacing pride with humility and aggressiveness with meekness. The process will not feel good at first, it will be uncomfortable. You may have to struggle within as you examine and become acquainted with those aspects of your inner household who withstand your efforts.

However, one must persevere, for in persevering we learn to recognize our enemies within and without. We can train our senses to detect pride, arrogance, and/or aggressiveness. This practice will be extremely instrumental in helping us further our transition and it will aid us in the development of a new character in which both humility and meekness will become a part of our very being.

As long as we think or feel that we have something to prove to others we not only expose ourselves to unnecessary stress and hinder our ability to put on humility and meekness, we also hinder our ability to put on Caring Concern for others. Putting on and exercising Caring Concern requires that we think of others first, something that would be difficult to archive if our thoughts are full with concern over what someone may think of us or what we would like them to think of us.

As believers and true followers of The Christ, we are in an excellent position to live life as stress free as possible, for one of the most wonderful advantages of being a follower of The Christ and child of THE ALMIGHTY is the fact that we need only be concerned with what HE thinks. If at anytime what you do or say pleases the ALMIGHTY SOVEREIGN of the Universe, then anyone who has a problem with it should take it up with HIM.

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