"Where Meek Souls Will Receive Him Still...."

  "....because there was no room for them in the inn."  (Luke 2)

It "started" with Joseph and Mary, went to a stable, then declared to shepherds.  This is classic "humble beginnings."

Our Lord Jesus says, "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."  John D. Rockefeller once quipped, "That's the only way they'll get it."  Yet no matter the triteness of Rockefeller's statement, there is no doubt about it, and, I might add, the Carol is very Biblical, that only, "Where meek souls will receive Him still, the dear Christ enters in."  Whatever the fullness of the meaning of, "inherit the earth," without "the Dear Christ enters in," I have nothing in the Godhead to, "inherit."

Meekness has been often described as "strength under control."  I would be wary of that.  The very mention of "strength" in the definition tells me that someone may still want to hold on to "strength," remind everyone that they are not a "pushover."  Perhaps meekness is like humility, even as the Bible tells us of love, "does not insist on its own way."  People who allow life's seeming contradictions, the myriad questions of humanity to turn them from Jesus, need to accept that perhaps inherent in meekness is humility, love, and submission to Jesus, no matter what they don't "understand," the unanswered questions.  Pride has no place here.

"The Dear Christ" still "enters in," for those who will come to a stable, stand with a humble carpenter, a very young mother, and smelly animals---- though they were looking for a palace.  And what a glorious truth we find in That manger.  It is not just in some future sense, but even now, "The Tabernacle of God is with men," yes, "Immanuel, God with us," in that "meek" atmosphere of a stable, coming to dwell in all the "meek souls."

Father, in Jesus' Name, "I am Thine, O Lord, I have heard Thy voice....Draw me to Thy precious Bleeding Side."  Amen.

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When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"

Hebrews 12:2