Some years ago, somebody told me that perception is reality.

Now it took a long time for that to sink in and really experience that and understand it not only in my own life but in the life of other people.

Now that 20 years later I have to agree with that statement that in many times perception

is reality, at least to that person.

And I have learned also that one of the most difficult tasks is to try to correct a wrong

perception.

It really is.

It is one of the toughest things in the world.

A person who has a wrong perception

is like the person who says, look, I've got my mind all made up. Don't confuse me with the facts.

And one of the most persistent wrong perception is the concept of meekness and gentleness. It really is. Whether it is within

the Church of Jesus Christ or outside of the Church of Jesus Christ is even worse outside for people

to understand and really comprehend what it mean to be biblically meek, what it means to be biblically gentle. The perception that meekness

means weakness stubbornly persist somehow. The biblical concept of meekness is far, far, far from

weakness. And yet, most people describe timidity, wimpiness,

cowardness as meekness. That's how they would describe it. While in reality, biblical meekness

is synonymous with courage. Biblical meekness is synonymous with courage. Biblical meekness is synonymous with

confidence. Biblical meekness is synonymous with inner security. Biblical meekness is

synonymous with strength under control. That's what it means. In fact, the Greek word that is

used here, particularly in Galatians, the word peraotas has real deep roots in the Greek language

itself before the time of Christ in the Hellenist culture.

That Greek word, which the Apostle Paul takes in, and he puts it in his list of the fruit of the spirit,

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