Meekness isn't often appreciated, according to Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth.

Again, the world tells us, if you're meek, you're lowly, you're worth nothing, you have nothing to make you happy.

But God's word says if you have true biblical meekness, you are a blessed person.

You want the blessings that come with meekness, and you've got to pursue something that is countercultural.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Choosing Gratitude.

For July 6th, 2021, I'm Dana Gresh.

Perhaps. Perhaps one of the most misunderstood biblical qualities is meekness. Candidates running for public office never tout their meekness as a reason to vote for them.

It doesn't seem to us like a desirable quality. Well, as we're about to hear,

Nancy's been challenged in this area, and she's about to challenge us in a series called The Beauty of

Meekness. It's so often true that in whatever area I'm getting ready to teach others or have just

taught to others, I find myself getting tested. And I guess that's a good thing.

The Lord wants to be sure that the things I'm telling others, I'm practicing in my own life. And,

you know, you don't really know what you know about something until you get a test. That's why we

have tests in school, pop quizzes, midterms, finals. And they tell the teacher and they tell us what material we've

mastered and what material we have yet to master. And on the subject we're talking about in this

series, I have much yet to master. And I've realized as I've been studying on the subject of

meekness, that this is something I need very much myself.

I feel like I've just skimmed the surface of what there is to learn about this topic.

But as I've been studying, I found myself in a battle field at times.

And failing miserably more times, as I think about the last couple of weeks,

just so many instances come to mind where I became conscious, unfortunately, after the fact,

in many cases, that the way I had just communicated or something I had just thought or something,

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