Nathaniel
Jesus Was Not Meek
THEY SAY THAT Jesus of Nazareth was humble and meek.
They say that though He was a just man and righteous, He was a weakling,
and was often confounded by the strong and the powerful; and that when
He stood before men of authority He was but a lamb among lions.
But I say Jesus had authority over men, and that He knew His power and
proclaimed it among the hills of Galilee, and in the cities of Judea and
Phoenicia.
What man yielding and soft would say, "I am life, and I am the way to
truth?"
What man meek and lowly would say, "I am in God, our Father; and our God,
the Father, is in me?"
What man unmindful of His own strength would say, "He who believes not
in me believes not in this life nor in the life everlasting?"
What man uncertain of tomorrow would proclaim, "Your world shall pass
away and be naught but scattered ashes ere my words shall pass away?"
Was He doubtful of Himself when He said to those who would confound Him
with a harlot, "He who is without sin, let him cast a stone?"
Did He fear authority when He drove the money-changers from the court
of the temple, though they were licensed by the priests?
Were His wings shorn when He cried aloud, "My kingdom is above your earthly
kingdoms?"
Was He seeking shelter in words when He repeated again and yet again,
"Destroy this temple and I will rebuild it in three days?"
Was it a coward who shook His hand in the face of the authorities and
pronounced them "liars, low, filthy, and degenerate?"
Shall a man bold enough to say these things to those who ruled Judea be
deemed meek and humble?
Nay. The eagle builds not his nest in the weeping willow. And the lion
seeks not his den among the ferns.
I am sickened and the bowels within me stir and rise when I hear the faint-hearted
call Jesus humble and meek, that they may justify their own faint-heartedness;
and when the downtrodden, for comfort and companionship, speak of Jesus
as a worm shining by their side.
Yea, my heart is sickened by such men. It is the mighty humter I would
preach, and the mountainous spirit unconquerable.
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