Discussion Jumpstarter
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Question 9
The speaker argued that biblical meekness is not weakness but “power under control,” using Moses (educated, powerful, physically strong) and Jesus (“Not my will, but thine”) as examples; where do you most tend to use your strength—words, competence, spirituality, emotions—to control outcomes, and what would it look like to place that strength under God’s agenda in a concrete situation you’re facing?
Another way to ask: Where do you tend to use your strengths—your words, skills, spirituality, or emotions—to get your way? In one real situation right now, what would it look like to bring that strength under God’s plans instead?
Discussion Jumpstarter
Direct Answer
The speaker defines meekness as strength voluntarily restrained for God’s purposes; placing strength under God’s agenda would mean choosing “Not my will” in a real situation—using your abilities to serve rather than to force outcomes.
- Moses is called “very meek,” yet Acts 7 says he was “learned… mighty in words and in deeds,” with education, status, and even physical strength (he “slew the Egyptian”).
- Jesus is meek though He is “King of kings,” powerful in miracles and authority, yet says, “the Son can do nothing of himself,” and prays, “Not my will, but thine be done.”
- Her summary: “What I see here is power under control.”
- She defines meekness: “take all that you have… talents and skills and make them available for someone else’s agenda… namely God’s agenda.”
- Practical contrasts: meekness is when we could “fight back” but trust God’s vengeance; could “manipulate” but “choose to submit.”
- Outcome promise: meekness makes a woman “very valuable… to the kingdom of God,” and God “beautif[ies] the meek with salvation.”