Tag Archives: Thoughtful Thursday

Last week I talked about not talking. 🙂 When someone else is angry with you, meekness helps you either to be silent, or if you must answer, to say it softly. When someone speaks angrily at you, pause to think … Continue reading →

#108432305 / gettyimages.com I’ve been sharing some of Matthew Henry’s thoughts on how to govern our own anger. Now I want to share how Matthew Henry advises one to be meek when others are angry at him. Meekness is needful … Continue reading →

Here again are the four “jobs” that meekness does for us when we are angered by something: Consider the circumstances of that which we find to be a provocation. Calm the spirit so that inward peace may not be disturbed … Continue reading →

I’ve been working through Matthew Henry’s book on meekness this year; and I find it ironic that as I’m writing today’s thoughts on what meekness does for our angry souls, my spirit is battling frustration over yet another break-in from … Continue reading →

Matthew Henry points out that we can show meekness towards God’s plan for our lives, and we can show meekness towards all men. That’s how we usually think of meekness, especially in the sense of controlling our anger towards others. … Continue reading →

Matthew Henry, in discussing what “meekness toward God” looks like, says that we must have a meek spirit towards God’s plan for our lives… When the events of providence are grievous and afflictive, displeasing to sense, and crossing our secular … Continue reading →

Matthew Henry points out that “meekness can be considered with respect both to God and to our brethren.” We usually think of meekness as referring to the second part of Moses’ law, which is summed up as loving our neighbor … Continue reading →

Matthew Henry points out that “meekness can be considered with respect both to God and to our brethren.” We usually think of meekness as referring to the second part of Moses’ law, which is summed up as loving our neighbor … Continue reading →

Whose adorning let it not be of the that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; But let [our beauty] be the hidden man of the heart, in that which … Continue reading →