Matthew 5:5 “How blessed are the meek! for they will inherit the Land!”
You cannot spend time with a verse like this without its humbling you.
It is the thing for which we are called and for which we are meant.
Meekness is essentially a true view of oneself.
Expressing itself in attitude and conduct with respect to others.
It is therefore two things:
It is my attitude toward myself
And it is an expression of that in my relationship to others
You can now see that a son can never be meek unless he is poor in spirit.
You can now see that a son can never be meek unless he sees himself as a sinner.
There must be an absence of pride.
The meek son is not proud of himself.
He does not glory in himself.
He knows there is nothing within him of which he can boast.
He does not make demands of: his position, his privileges, his possessions, his status in life.
He is not overly sensitive about himself.
He is not always watching himself and his own interests.
He is not always on the defensive.
We all know about this, do we not?
Is it not one of the greatest curses in life as a result of the fall -- this sensitivity about self?
We spend the whole of our lives watching ourselves.
But when a son becomes meek, he is done with all of that.
He no longer worries about himself and what other people say.
To be truly meek means we no longer protect ourselves, because we see there is nothing worth defending.
So we are not on the defensive -- all that is gone.
This is a dead serious summary of chapter 6 in Studies in the Sermon on the Mount by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones.