Here we go again...Blessed are the meek...

So we are started again with our journey in the beatitudes.

Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. Matt 5:5

Meekness isn't a quality that is particularly popular these days. A few years ago there was even a poster with Che Guevara type picture of Jesus saying 'Meek and Mild, I don't think so.' Did you see it? At the time I actually quite liked the picture - the sentiment of it but looking now - its wrong because Jesus was meek, he personified everything that is in the beatitudes.
So what does it mean to be meek? The dictionary says meek =

adjective, -er, -est.
1.humbly patient or docile, as under provocation from others.
2.overly submissive or compliant; spiritless; tame.
3.Obsolete . gentle; kind.

But I don't think any of these do the Word justice. I heard a sermon that said that meekness when actually translated from the Greek actually meant 'appropriate emotional response.' I think this is actually a very enlightening and helps the word make a lot more sense in the context of the passage. Then when we look at the life of Jesus, again it makes sense with events such as turning over the tables in the temple and weeping over Jerusalem and talking to the women at the well in the midday sun. So the question must be asked of us - when I'm longing to become more like Christ, do we always response appropriately? Do I weep over things that break God's heart or become enraged and the things that anger my King?
For they will inherit the earth...now I don't know what your interpretation of the 'end times' as they often called-basically the bit of time before Christ returns to the earth. This is the time in which we currently live in. We are told that there will be a new heaven and a new earth. Are we to inherit this earth? Perhaps. But to be honest I have always been scared about talking about the end times but I know these can't be ignored...but I feel at this moment, without previous study and prayer for me to comment on what I think will happen. To be honest-does it matter what I think? Jesus has told us we will not know the time but we are to be expected and live each day with the joy and fervency as if it could be today...

Blessed are the meek...