“I was like a docile lamb brought to the slaughter”
—Jeremiah 11:19
Docility, meekness, gentleness ought to be one of the defining characteristic of a Spirit-filled Christian.
A gentleness tempered on the acute awareness that the Lord is near. “Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand” (Philippians 4:5
5).
Not a pretend gentleness we eek out in our own effort—“The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control” (Galatians 5:22)
Jeremiah had been given so much revelation by the Lord. We too, we have the entire Scripture; even more so, the veil taken away in Christ, the Holy Spirit to teach, and we glory in knowing the one true and living God.
But let us hold the mystery of the faith with a pure conscience, docile, gentle, ever aware of our weakness. We are nothing more than broken vessels.
“Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies. And if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know” (1 Corinthians 8:1-4).
So with such knowledge as we have let us be gentle like Jeremiah, knowing that it is not at all about us but all about the Lord.
For “A servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all” (2 Timothy 2:24).
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