THE SCENARIO: PrauS is a gentle, mild, reserved Christian. PrauS is like that in their speech, in their behavior, in their expectations, in their engagements, relational or otherwise. PrauS follows Jesus Christ in this way. PrauS, a disciple of Jesus Christ, follows Jesus, their Hero and Example, their Lord God, their great savior God, in this specific, concrete way.
In the outworking of this scenario please consider the following:
3. PrauS has a sober estimation of self.
5. PrauS is tough..
Figure 1 A Sevenfold Cord unto Meekness
Points under Consideration
1. PrauS is like mild weather; you know how nice, how pleasant that is. Not much wind; largely still. Cozy warmth; just the right humidity. Suffusing, and spreading, overflowing, thus making its way undeterred, gently, pleasantly. PrauS is like that. Mild weather PrauS. Nice, and pleasant, gently making their way, undeterred.
2. PrauS doesn’t assume they know it all. PrauS knows and accepts their limitations. PrauS is a willing learner. PrauS rejoices in learning, learning from their mistakes, from their wrongness. There is a certain peace in that sobriety says PrauS, peace that spills over into a gentle, mild, reserved, Christian walk. Now Sin, the biggest mistake of all, the greatest of wrongs, is “under the blood” of their great savior God Jesus says PrauS, and His Spirit teaches a willing PrauS the holy walk. And PrauS rejoices in so learning, learning from their mistakes, from their wrongness, even Sin-sobriety, by God’s grace getting it right, getting righteous. There is a certain peace in that Salvation says PrauS, peace that spills over all the more into a gentle, mild, reserved, Christian walk.
3. PrauS is reserved, humble and reserved, in their opinion of themselves. That is to say, PrauS does not have a lofty opinion of themselves, not at all. PrauS subordinates such things as opinions of themselves to, exclusively, the opinion of their God Jehovah, He Jehovah convicting and teaching the Spirit-sensitive PrauS, the Word-savvy PrauS, in this way. O yes, PrauS is characteristically very much Spirit sensitive, submissively so. Precisely in this way, PrauS in fact cultivates meekness day-by-day.
4. PrauS is not obsessive, is certainly not obsessive compulsive. Cast in the positive, PrauS is calm, confident, content. PrauS is calm in their unassuming mind, in their satisfied person, in their redeemed spirit. PrauS is ever confident in the Spirit of God within that works out all things, timely, perfectly, the very one in whom PrauS has great faith owing to His manifest grace upon grace and multiplied blessings and mercies shown PrauS over the years. PrauS is content with their lot in life, with the status quo, looking to parlay the same unto manifold glory, not for self, but for the God Jehovah, whom PrauS loves and serves with all that PrauS can humanly muster.
5. PrauS is tough. Not a bully here, not cruel, but tough: tough emotionally through their eternal perspective, their anchoring, prayerful tether to their eternal Sovereign Jehovah, tough physically through restraint, not least their martyr’s perspective: instant in sacrifice of self for the benefit of others and the promotion of the good purposes and glory of Jehovah their beloved God, whatever the circumstances, and tough spiritually through the Holy Spirit in spiritual warfare. Say again, PrauS is tough, and in this way is a reliable, and accordingly much-called-upon servant; much called upon by God, and others: please picture PrauS, the tough little worker, hand-in-hand with the Big Worker, the Tough One, even the Timeless One. PrauS doesn’t quit when the going gets tough, PrauS gets tough in the manner just outlined when the going calls for toughness, emotionally, physically, spiritually. Jesus Christ was (is!) exceedingly tough like that, and PrauS consciously, prayerfully, emulates their beloved Hero and Savior, their great savior God, as much and as often as humanly possible.
6. PrauS is sensitive. PrauS is sensitive to boundaries, to limits, be they spiritual or secular. In this way PrauS is sensitive to excesses. And PrauS is sensitive to ambiances, environments, and moods, because PrauS is sensitive to the guiding whispers of the Revealer, the Holy Spirit (PrauS is instant in grateful obedience to Him; this obedience is to PrauS both a duty, and an expression of gratitude for having been given perfect guidance and mandates—not least PrauS humbles themselves before Him precisely by way of obedience). PrauS is sensitive to their personal presence, their tone, their words, when addressing both God and others. PrauS is sensitive to the substance of their prayers to their beloved God Jehovah, and PrauS is no less sensitive to their thoughts before Him, and certainly to their walk before Him
7. Now here finally is PrauS (the Holy Spirit!) cultivating meekness in a real, concrete situation, per the prior six points just related. There is this old codjer by the name of Hasslefully. Hasslefully is a stormy ol‘ boy, and sort of low-plane by any reckoning (a dull know-it-all, ever eased-back, sensually motivated, “selfie-ish,” Godless, that kind of thing). Mild weather PrauS just totally “gets under stormy ol‘ Hasslefully’s skin” if you will (Hasslefully doesn’t like PrauS). The Spirit-engineered rub, is, PrauS and Hasslefully are kin! They are brothers-in-law. And it has come to pass, by-and-by, after the formalities and niceties betwixt the two of them died away, that Hasslefully blows a lot of hot air PrauS’ way whenever they are together under the same roof—together more often than not by the way. It’s all that PrauS can manage sometimes to keep cool, because Hasslefully is a master heckler; let PrauS make even the appearance of a goof, as an example, and Hasslefully “milks it for all its worth.” Right here PrauS shines though, because PrauS has a sober estimation of self—an estimation by which the Holy Spirit keeps PrauS moving forward in Christlikeness (consummate meekness); the very Spirit to whom the learner PrauS is consciously tethered whilst in this caldron. PrauS does not have to be right all the time, and in the face of mistakes, real or imagined, exploited and/or leveraged, is thus graced with an inner peace which spills over into a gentle, reserved, Christian walk. And PrauS is not obsessed with retaliation; not at all. PrauS does not play the insults back in their mind as though listening to some recording that would only heighten the tension and anxiety attending those instances when PrauS and Hasslefully meet. “It’s just the way it is so to speak,” says PrauS, and so PrauS prayerfully makes the best of their lot in life here, calmly, confidently, contentedly, looking to parlay the status quo unto manifold glory, not for self, but for the God Jehovah whom PrauS loves and serves with all that PrauS can humanly muster. In this PrauS manifests a certain toughness, emotionally—this is self-evident, and physically, by way of restraint, and spiritually, because PrauS, ever sensitive to the whisperings of the Revealer, knows, is sensitive to the revealed fact that, their fight is essentially not with Hasslefully, but with that unclean thing Satan here looking to bring dishonor to Jehovah God by “getting at” PrauS (not unlike he tried to do with Job and ultimately with Jesus).
Praised be Thy Beautiful Name in all the earth great savior God, Thou Meek. Amen.