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Daily Devotionals
Bowen's Daily Meditations
" The Lord lifteth up the meek." ― Psalms 147:6.
The meek are they who have consented to receive the knowledge of themselves. Self-detection has led to self-spoliation. Their wardrobe has turned out to be a pirate’s chest. The more richly they went arrayed, the more they exposed their own dishonor. They gladly now sink down to their proper level, and find no place too low for them. Perhaps they occasionally shrink back from some deeper humiliation. But the Spirit of God and his providence convince them, and they take that step too. They lose at length their reluctance, and are content to be last of all and servant of all.
Oh! how few, how rare, are those meek ones! Am I one of them, Lord? Am I quite content to be overlooked in the day when thou distributest honors on the earth? Am I willing to be despised by all, and made of no account? Is my chief ambition to be useful, eminently but not ostensibly useful? And if I get this spirit one day, does it abide with me? Do I not find myself coming into new circumstances where my mean estate troubles me? And through some insidious suggestion does there arise impatience of God’s depressing providence? Thou that art meek and lowly of heart, teach me to be meek, give me a meekness that shall pass through every ordeal.
The meek shall be lifted up; they shall be exalted very high. But in their utmost exaltation they will lose nothing of their meekness. In the highest or in the lowest situation, they are at home, they are blessed. The idea of their own merit has been ground out of them by the wheel of God’s government; and their whole being is pervaded and beatified by God’s love.
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