Consider Moses, the Old Testament’s champion of meekness.
The Bible says, “Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth” Numbers 12:3.
He was meek. But was he weak? See him slay the Egyptian who is beating his Hebrew brother unjustly. See him flee to the desert and amass a fortune over forty years. See him face mighty Pharaoh and demand, “Let my people go!” See him lead a horde of escaped slaves across a desert wasteland for forty years, to a land flowing with milk and honey.
When God becomes angry with Israel—so much so that He is ready to slay them to the last man—see Moses stand in intercession and say, “If you kill them, Lord, kill me too!” God changes His mind because of Moses. That’s meekness. But it’s anything but weakness.
Moses certainly fulfilled what Paul would later write to the New Testament church regarding model meekness:
“I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love” Ephesians 4:12.
Source: Being Happy in an Unhappy World
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