Meekness Is Teachableness

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 29, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 29.

Meekness Is Teachableness

MEEKNESS is not that disposition which is content with desires to learn, or prayers for knowledge. Meekness is teachableness. “The meek will he teach his way.” The meek man not only desires to learn, but is willing to learn, not in his way but in God’s way. Many suppose they are teachable when they desire to learn only in their own way. Such is not meekness but pride. They cannot bear to admit that their way is wrong. They lack an essential element of meekness, namely, humility. Meekness and humility are precious graces in God’s sight, but sadly lacking in the world. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.”