The essence of meek is to be patient with ignorance, slow to anger and never hold a grudge. In other words: how happy you will be when you also know humility; when you know yourself, the good and the bad, for both cut through every human heart.
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, they will be filled."
In other words: how happy you will be when your greatest desire is to do what "God requires, and he has already told you what that is; BE JUST, BE MERCIFUL and walk humbly with your Lord."-Micah 6:8
"Blessed are the merciful, they will be shown mercy."
In other words: how happy you will all be when you choose to return only kindness to your enemy, for the only way to break the cycle of evil and violence is with good.
"For with the measure you measure against another, it will be measured back to you," Christ warns his disciples as he explains the law of karma in Luke 6:27-38.
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they see God."
In other words: how happy you will be when you WAKE UP and see God is already within you, within every man, woman and child. The Supreme Being is everywhere, the Alpha and Omega, beginning and end. Beyond The Universe -and yet so small; within the heart of every atom.
And the bottom line of exactly who the children of God are, is summed up in Matthew 5:9:
"Blessed are The Peacemakers: THEY shall be called the children of God."
Many Americans live under the fallacy that the USA is a Christian nation. If that were true, we would lead the way in nuclear disarmament and abolish war.
The bombs that landed on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were but the first baby steps to 21st Century nuclear weapons that if set off, by human design, or accident will reap the end of civilization as we now know it; for the nuclear fallout in the air and water will return the nuclear poison unto the ones who sought to destroy 'the other'.
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