Good morning everyone and welcome back to another mornings with the masters who devote ourselves to the Lord daily with you.

We are picking up with day three of our devotion on the Bible up titled The

Upside Down Kingdom.

There's a link to that in the description if you guys want to

follow along and as always I'm into the scripture that I'm also going to pick

with the Devo. The scripture is Matthew chapter 5 verse 5 and it says this

Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth. The

Devotional is titled Gentleness in a hostile world and it says this in year

1,195, Pope Urban II called for what became known as the first

crusade to reclaim Jerusalem from the Muslims with a cry of deuce Volt, which means God wills it.

With the same crusading spirit, many conquistadors sought to spread Christianity through the Americas, another story of brutality in the name of Jesus.

The 30 Years War from 1618 to 1648 also comes to mind when Catholics and Protestants went

toe-to-to-to-to-to-to-to-to-the-field of battle wielding crude weapons resulting in

millions of debts. All of this leads us to the question, what is the proper role of power

in the Christian life, aka the marshalling of power in God's name by which the kingdom advances in this world. Here's a devotional

insight. The heartbeat of meekness is the self-giving love of God, seen

powerfully in Christ by laying down his life.

But meekness must not be confused with weakness.

Paradoxically, meekness can be defined as gentle strength governed by the Holy Spirit and it will inherit the

earth.

Here's some observations.

Our Beatitude says, Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth.

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