Meek and lowly…

Part six

‘For I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.’

What a beautiful description of Jesus!

‘Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.’

This little word ‘for’ joins the invitation and command with the reason for obedience.

If we’re weary and heavy laden and we come just as we are in all our felt sinfulness and weakness and if we take His yoke upon us and follow Him, seeking Him, learning from Him, we will receive this precious gift of rest in Christ and we’ll find rest for our weary, burdened souls.

This meek and lowly, humble Jesus who did so many wonderful works still calls those that are weary and burdened with the weight of this sinful world and their own sins to come to Him find rest for their weary souls.

These coming, seeking, weary, burdened souls are the souls that Jesus reveals the Father to ‘no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.’

But let’s look a little more at these two words describing Jesus; ‘meek and lowly in heart.’

Meek – praos – humble, meek, gentle.

Interestingly the only time this Greek word is used in the whole Bible is here to describe Jesus.

What a reminder to us each that Jesus is the only perfectly humble person that has ever walked this earth, for that sin of pride is always in our hearts waiting for an opportunity when we’re not walking so close to Jesus to rear it’s ugly heard and make us stumble.

Lowly – tapeinos – humiliated (in circumstances or disposition): base, cast down, humble, of low estate, lowly.

‘And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.’

Friends, Jesus was made ‘a little lower than the angels’ this Jesus, the King of kings and Lord of lords left His home in heaven, took on human form, was a baby in his mother’s womb, was born by a natural birth in a stable! He was despised and rejected but so many, even by those close to Him, He knew grief and sorrow buy through it all He was meek and lowly in HEART!

This wasn’t just an outward meekness, He IS meek and lowly, it’s the very essence of who Jesus is. No pride in this One, though the Son of God, though the Creator of all, He humbly reached out to those despised and rejected ones of society, the beggars, the leper’s and the immoral and He reaches out to sinners still with this invitation to come and find rest for Your souls.

Friend, will you come?

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Matt 11:29,27, Ps 8:5, Phil 2:8