Highlights From desiringgod.org

Jesus had to resent deeply the loss of Jewish national independence and the aggression of Rome.… Natural humiliation was hurting and burning. The balm for that burning humiliation was humility. For humility cannot be humiliated.… Thus he asked his people to learn from him, “For I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. F

“Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight” (Prov. 3:5–6).

the Imitation of Christ.

a narrative or worldview that values power and domination and violence will see Christ’s meekness and humility as a vice; in contrast, Christians see Christ as the very exemplar of virtue, and so we evaluate his meekness and humility as virtues to which we aspire.