Summary
In this episode, Nancy Wilson continues through Matthew Henry’s Meekness and Quietness of Spirit with a look at the problem of anger, explaining how meekness keeps reason on the throne, restrains hasty words, and teaches us to answer criticism and conflict with patience, humility, and a soft answer.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Feminid Podcast. |
| 0:07.8 | This is Nancy Wilson. |
| 0:09.0 | Thanks for joining me today. |
| 0:10.9 | This week we're going to continue with Matthew Henry's book, Meekness and Quietness of Spirit. |
| 0:17.0 | And this section today, we're going to talk about the problem of anger. |
| 0:21.6 | Meekness is what Henry calls easiness of spirit. |
| 0:25.4 | I like that. |
| 0:26.6 | It allows us to sit easy in our saddle, not reacting like a thermometer to the surrounding situation, |
| 0:34.0 | by being more like a thermostat, setting the temperature of our own spirit, even if we have |
| 0:39.4 | no control of the surrounding situation. Meekness allows us to get control of our own soul. |
| 0:46.8 | But weakness is not meekness, and meekness is not weakness. It's something else. Actually, |
| 0:53.0 | meekness is quiet strength. Here's a quote from the book, |
| 0:56.9 | and I'll sprinkle some quotes throughout. Anger in the soul is like metal in a horse. Good if it be |
| 1:03.9 | well managed. It is a good servant, but a bad master. Meekness is the bridle that keeps us steady, not headstrong. So when we're |
| 1:14.0 | meek toward God, we are submitting ourselves to his commands without taking any issue with them. |
| 1:22.3 | We receive correction and instruction from the word with a soft heart. We don't gloss over the parts that we don't |
| 1:29.5 | like and then assume that we're going to get back to them another day. Meekness enables us to |
| 1:35.8 | keep reason on the throne in difficult circumstances or in those moments when we are sorely |
| 1:43.0 | provoked. |
| 1:51.3 | James 119 says, be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to become angry. |
| 1:53.1 | All right, let me say it again. |
| 1:58.6 | Be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to become angry. |
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