{"id":12256,"date":"2017-08-09T12:26:37","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T19:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/?p=12256"},"modified":"2017-08-09T13:32:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T20:32:41","slug":"blessed-are-the-meek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/2017\/08\/09\/blessed-are-the-meek\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessed are the Meek"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mongolian Miss<\/em>, oil over acrylic, 10×12. She’s no more meek than the rest of us can be, but as she was just completed, she can represent us. It’s one of a series of faces from around the world I’ve been working on of late, just because they’re so beautiful.
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“Blessed are the meek.” How incredibly counter-intuitive is that? But Jesus said it, and he could because he himself was meek. He doesn’t preach it without being it first . . . submitting completely, as he did, to the will of the Father . . . telling Peter to put away his meekless<\/em> sword because he, Jesus, had to go through with what God had planned.<\/p>\n

It’s not Trump, this meekness, nor anybody else, by our own nature.<\/p>\n

But here’s the reward: “Inherit the earth.” How blessed is that???!!!<\/p>\n

Not this earth, apparently, or not this earth at this time. This world is still being dominated by the non-meek<\/em>. But those submissive to God, would they not have God’s eye? Would he not honor them, elevate them, reward them?<\/p>\n

And what would that reward be? EVERYTHING! The whole earth! All that they have been deprived of till then.<\/p>\n

Meekness, it’s not just a condition to be borne, but high goal with high reward.<\/p>\n

And an easy one, really, if we just quit trying so hard.<\/p>\n

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\nBlessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. Matthew 5:5<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s counterintuitive, something we rather distain, pass over, ignore . . . but the reward it so high, it’s better as a goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12256"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12269,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12256\/revisions\/12269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}