Nancy DeMas Walgamu says the only way you can display true meekness is for Christ to live through you.

We're not talking about moralism here or self-correction or making ourselves something better than we are.

We're talking about Christ who lives within us, who has paid the price for our sin and lives within us by the power of His Holy Spirit,

pours His grace into our lives to make us something

supernaturally that we could never be apart from him.

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

For July 14th, 2021, I'm Dana Gresh.

Music For July 14th, 2021, I'm Dana Gresh. Nancy's been leading us through a convicting series called The Beauty of Meekness.

We've gotten a helpful biblical overview of meekness over the last several days,

and now we're going to look at this as women in 2021. Can women afford to be meek in our day?

Here's Nancy. Some of you are old enough to remember Phyllis Diller. She made you laugh.

A stand-up comedian, for those of you who don't know, she was big in the 60s, and that just dated

some of us.

She created a stage character persona that was a wild-haired, eccentricly-dressed housewife

who made jokes about a fictional husband that she referred to as fang.

And she was known for a loud, cackling laugh that was part of her act.

And the character she portrayed was blunt and crass and boisterous, no restraint in her speech.

She was unkind.

She spoke disparagingly of her husband, etc. And if we were to pick a

picture of something, a character that is the opposite of meek, that might be the picture,

sadly, what was then an extreme sort of way for a woman to act has become the accepted norm

for women in our culture. And yet there's nothing new.

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