Create in me

Jesus boldly declared that ‘The meek with inherit the Earth.’ (Matt. 5:5) But who are the meek? It is not primarily people who have a particularly ‘docile’ nature whom Jesus is talking about here, but rather those who have deliberately humbled themselves before the Lord of Heaven and Earth, and asked Him to be Lord of their lives. Consciously and contritely, they have acknowledged their need of His cleansing and restoration – and in His love and mercy, God has noted and welcomed their reaching out to Him, and made them part of His eternal Kingdom. This lovely song, written by Francis Cummings and sung by Linda Entwistle, brings together twin themes: David’s plea of repentance in Psalm 51 following his moral lapse with Bathsheba, and his great thirst for the Lord, which we have been exploring in Psalm 63. May these qualities of profound repentance on the one hand, and spiritual thirst and desire on the other, be the ongoing stamp and hallmark of our lives – and, in time, of the many ‘prodigals’ we are praying for too.