I've been working my way through the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7) and read a great bit on meekness by James Montgomery Boice. Very convicting, and very rectifying.
"A final sense of the word "meek" comes from the fact that in biblical language the word is used most often to indicate a subservient and trusting attitude before God, and this makes meekness generally a vertical virtue rather than a horizontal one. It is the characteristic that makes a man bow low before God in order that he may stand high before other men; it makes him bold because he knows that his life has been touched by God and that he comes as God's messenger."J.M. Boice, An Expositional Commentary: the Sermon on the Mount
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