Blessed are the Meek

What comes to your mind when you picture someone who is meek? A quiet person who rarely speaks up or speaks out? A sheepish person who always goes along with whatever other people want to do? A timid person with a soft voice and a limp handshake? I doubt if the word "meek" immediately conjures up words like strong, courageous, outgoing, and confident.  The world says: "meekness doesn't make you happy." But Jesus says, "Happy are the meek." The world thinks that "meekness leads to an unfulfilled life." But Jesus urges us to desire and seek out the attitude of meekness – as it's one of the keys to a life of deep peace and fulfillment. The values of God's kingdom run counter to the values of the world.  We will see this over and over again in Jesus's Sermon on the Mount.  But I also think that the whole understanding of meekness is misunderstood and has morphed from what Jesus originally meant.