The 'Meek' Factor
Do you have it?
What’s the secret sauce? What turns the routine, lukewarm Christian into a dedicated and devoted and passionate follower of Jesus Christ of Nazareth? What’s stopping the routine believer from entering in?
The more I meditate on this question, the more that is revealed. I myself, a passionate follower of Jesus, find myself asking things like this often. What makes the difference? What makes me different? So many treat worship and spiritual activity like a performance, like entertainment. What keeps me walking above that ocean of lukewarmness? What do I have and can it be imparted to others?
What is the “It” Factor but for Christians?
Can I put it in a bottle and give it to the nominal, carnal “Christian” and keep them from being separated as tares at the end and tossed into the Lake of Fire. Like my Father in Heaven, I wish that none should perish and that all should have eternal life. But many so-called “Christians” of weak faith and carnal appetites seem to enjoy walking a tight rope in their faith. They love the pomp and circumstance of religion, but they do not have the grace, mercy, love, and compassion of the Lord Jesus Christ.
It’s doesn’t matter which brand of Christianity. Among we wheat, there are tares: fruitless bulbs whose memory will one day be wiped from the earth. These ones are often quite good at quoting scripture and even at debating theology, but their lifestyles and heart are far from Father God’s heart. They are the people who harass newly confessed, public Christians after they make a public mistake. They call themselves “Christians” but the voice of the accuser erupts from their lips more often than the voice of the One whose blood speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
They call themselves Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant, but they are twice the sons of hell as those that mentored them in faith. Instead of setting people free, they place shackles on them to dead legalism (religion) and place a burden of shame on them. In Romans 8:1, it says that there is no condemnation within Christ Jesus, yet these ones are always condemning. They lack love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such things, there is no law. But in the lives of these so-called believers, they product no harvest, no fruit of the Spirit. They are dead but mimicking the sound of those ALIVE in Jesus, the Christ.
They are almost always in some critical state of chronic sin in their personal lives which they often excuse on themselves, but they often condemn others for those same sins. Their bread and butter is compromise and lack of humility. They are self-centered, never willing to lay down their lives for their friends. Always seeking their own enrichment and promotion, but they speak highly of God often as an after thought.
The ones that they accuse—the ones that overcome by the blood of the lamb, the word of their testimony, and by loving not their lives even into death—of being soft and flaky are the wheat. These ones walk in gentleness and lowliness of heart. Their bread and butter is meekness before the throne of grace. They walk in the fear of the Lord, and they are always willing to be interrupted by the voice of the Lord. These ones rise up on wings like eagles. They run and are not weary. They walk and do not faint. They lay down their lives even into death, willing to lose their own lives, rather than save their own lives.
They have the “Meek” Factor. They are the ones who have truly sold out to God. They stumble, but they always rise up. They see it as their duty to be perfect as Jesus is perfect. They partake in the divine nature and know their identity as part of a holy nation, a chosen race, a royal priesthood.
Finally, and most importantly, they recognized the pearl of great price (the revelation of Jesus Christ of Nazareth as the Messiah) and sold everything to attain it. The Meek Wheat have given their lives over to their Lord and walk humbling themselves before Him, not pronouncing their every whim as of God but humbly taking every thought captive and submitting it to their Father in Heaven, to His holy fire that cleanses everything, continually purifying them.
The Meek Ones are rising. They are NOT like those others who walk in pride and self-importance, promoting their own names while claiming they know the name above all names, the tares. I am calling The Prideful Tares to repentance, to submit to an actual relationship with Jesus and to humble themselves before Him. Before it’s too late...
Be the Meek One that Yahweh has called you to be.
(I deliberately chose not to reference the verses quoted and/or paraphrased in this piece. A Bible-reading Christian ought to recognize them all.)