The meekness buah teu mindeng dibahas di garéja, sabab meekness sanes buah pisan populér tina Roh. Di dunya urang hirup di, jalma teu hayang anjeun jadi lemah lembut, tapi kudu ngayakinkeun diri, mandiri, nangtung pikeun diri, jeung boga pamadegan sorangan. Meekness teu wanti di sakola, dina ajaran, nuju damel, komo di imah. Nalika anjeun lemah lembut, aya parobahan badag yén anjeun bakal bullied di sakola. Sareng nalika anjeun henteu negeskeun diri dina padamelan anjeun, kolega Anjeun bakal leumpang sakuliah anjeun sarta ngamangpaatkeun anjeun. Anjeun kudu nangtung pikeun diri. Dunya (sistem) nentang Allah(s) (sistem); aranjeunna moal bisa balik babarengan. Tapi naon Alkitab nyebutkeun ngeunaan meekness jeung harti buah Roh meekness?
Naon hartina lemah lembut?
Meekness asalna tina kecap Yunani 'praotēs' (G4236 Strong’s Concordance) sareng hartos: keseluk; ku implikasi humility: – beuki.
Nalika anjeun lemah lembut, your are gentle and have humility in your heart. No matter how many miseries or wrongs you have endured, you will stay meek and full of forgiveness.
The opposite of meekness is pride, sombong, kaangkuhan, self-assertive, rebellion etc. You see the worldly characteristics (kareueus, sombong, kaangkuhan, self-assertive, rebellion etc.) versus the Godly characteristics (keseluk, humility, meekness etc.).
God is meek
Thou hast also given me the shield of Thy salvation: and Thy right hand hath holden me up, and Thy gentleness (beuki) hath made me great (Psalm 18:36)
God is a loving Father; hipu, porsi, full of mercy, forgiveness and patience. When you read the Old Testament, you’ll see how meek and gentle God really is. Allah téh suci jeung adil. Therefore God can’t be a Partaker of the world and of sins and iniquities.
Éta alesanana jadi lahir deui is essential instead of an option, to be reconciled with God and have a relation with the Father. Tanpa Regenation, people can’t commune with the Father. Only those who have become a new creation; lahir tina cai and Spirit have eternal life (John 3:5). It all begins at the cross, at the sacrifice of Jesus Christ; ku getih-Na.
Jesus is meek
Candak jodoh kuring, sareng diajar kuring; pikeun kuring meeks sareng low: sareng ye kedah mendakan sesa jiwa anjeun (Mat 11:29)
ceuk Yesus, that He is meek and lowly in heart. He walked on earth, ngalakonan pangersa Rama-Na; Jesus was meek
Jesus didn’t walk after His flesh; Indrana, parasaan, birahi, kahayang, jeung bakal. But Jesus walked after the Spirit; ngalakonan pangersa Bapa. Jesus didn’t compromise with the world, Henteu!
Jesus stayed in the will of His Father, by obeying and doing His words and keeping commandments. Therefore Jesus pleased the Father and was faithful to Him unto His death.
So many people despised Him, but Jesus stayed faithful to His Father. It had cost Him everything, but Jesus did it, because He loved His Father.
Although Jesus bore the fruit meekness, Jesus was not a wishy-washy. Jesus walked and spoke boldly with authority. Jesus was meek towards man, He was gentle and served them, but He wasn’t afraid to confront God’s people, with their sins and their evil walk.
The new creation is meek
We have the Holy Spirit living inside of us, and therefore Gods nature dwells in us. He dwells in us, and if we live according to His will, jeung leumpang sanggeus Roh, then we shall bear the fruit of the Spirit, which contains the fruit meekness.
Just like God and Jesus are meek, we shall also become like them and become meek.
We can only bear the fruit meekness, if our flesh, and our ‘self’ has died, and if we walk after the Spirit and live according to His commandments and His will.
Dying to the flesh, to ‘self’ is not fun; nobody wants to die, because it hurts. Jesus never said that it was easy, but He said it was necessary in order to have eternal life.
You may consider many things in your life as normal, and see no harm in doing those things. But when you begin to read and study the Word of God, anjeun bakal dibere nyaho the true will of God.
Basa maneh renew pikiran anjeun kalawan Firman Allah, you will find out that a lot of things that you consider normal aren’t normal at all and oppose the will of God.
The truth is revealed by God’s Word
When you find out the truth by God’s Word you have to decide to submit to the Word of God and obey His words and commandments and do His and remove those things from your life or will you reject the Word of God and keep those things in your life and keep doing what you want to do?
If you really love God and want to obey Him, anjeun kudu miceun loba kabiasaan heubeul, di mana anjeun walked di nalika anjeun ciptana lami.
Prosés dying ciptaan heubeul perlu, sabab disebutkeun ciptaan anyar teu bisa muncul.
Nalika ego anjeun, kareueus jeung sombong geus maot, mangka buah meekness bisa datang mudik. Urang kedah ngagem lemah lembut sareng ngaleungitkeun kareueus, ego, sombong, kateguhan diri jsb.
Urang Kristen ngagem lemah lembut
Dipasang ku kituna, salaku umat pilihan Allah, suci jeung dipikacinta, bowels of mercies, kahadean, humbleness pikiran, beuki, longsuffering (Kolosa 3:12)
Pasang mangrupikeun tindakan. Rahasia teh nya eta lamun renew pikiran anjeun jeung Kecap Allah jeung leumpang dina Kecap, yén anjeun ngagem Kristus. Anjeun pakean diri anjeun sareng Anjeunna; kalawan bowels of mercies, kahadean, humbleness pikiran, beuki, lila-lila.
Lamun batur ngalakukeun salah jeung anjeun jadi gélo, tur mimitian nyerang jalma éta, eta hartina anjeun daging teu maot acan.
Ieu ngandung harti yén pikiran anjeun henteu renewed kalawan Firman Allah, sabab geus acted kaluar tina émosi jeung parasaan anjeun(daging anjeun), tinimbang meta kaluar tina sumanget jeung kaluar tina Firman Allah.
When you become angry, you don’t bear the fruit meekness.
Another thing to remember is, that as a born again Christian, you don’t have your own opinion anymore, but you have Gods opinion. It doesn’t matter what you think, it matters what God thinks, and what His Word says.
Being meek pleases God
While the world says that you have to be spontaneous, nyaring (because they don’t like quiet people), self-assertive, stand up for yourself, take matters into your own hands etc. God says something else about these matters.
God has a delight in a meek and quiet spirit. A meek and quiet spirit are valuable to Him.
Peter wrote about the adorning of a woman:
Tapi ngantepkeun lalaki anu disumputkeun manah, Dina éta anu henteu rusak, Malah ornament tina sumanget sareng sepi, anu di payuneun Gusti harga hébat (1 Peter 3:4)
Only a meek and willing spirit will submit to God and receive and obey His words. Because a pride spirit, thinks he knows it better and shall always be resistant. A pride spirit will never submit to God and will never be open for correction.
But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace (Psalm 37:11, Mateus 5:5)
What doesn’t the fruit meekness mean?
The fruit meekness doesn’t mean consorting and compromising with the world and allowing sin and iniquity. The fruit meekness doesn’t mean accepting and approving the evil things that oppose the Word of God and are an abomination to God.
Jesus is meek. Sanajan kitu, when Jesus walked on this earth, He never sinned nor walked in iniquity. Jesus didn’t compromise with the world and allow sin. Gantina, Jesus confronted the people with their sins and commanded them to repent and dosa henteu deui.
Jesus also didn’t consort with the Pharisees and Sadducees, in order to be accepted by them or to become famous. Jesus walked in obedience to His Father in righteousness and in holiness.
Righteousness can’t have communion with unrighteousness. Holiness can’t have communion with sin.
What does the fruit meekness mean?
The fruit meekness means being weak after the flesh (maotna daging), but being strong in the Spirit. Because only when you are weak, God will make you strong.
When you are strong in the Spirit, you shall walk after the Spirit according to the Word and be a witness and speak with authority. You shall do the will of God and represent and bring His Kingdom on earth .
So let us bear this fruit meekness; and walk in meekness towards God and towards others.
'Janten uyah bumi'
