If there is any virtue critical to Working with God, MEEKNESS it is.
The greatest challenge God has with man has always been the ability to ask why before doing, the personal opinion, the propensity for egotism; the thinking that he could have a superior idea than God's instructions.
Throughout the Bible, we are commanded to go at God's instructions recklessly to get the full benefits locked into that attitude of complete obedience.
It is a follow-follow mandate we received at the cross; we were brought into the kingdom of Our Lord and His Christ. Everything the King says is a decree or command and to be obeyed recklessly.
The Bible records that because King Nebuchadnezzar's command to dump the Hebrew men in the fire was urgent, the king's men carrying out the instructions died at it. They were reckless.
Unfortunately, a lot of God's children find it still difficult to see God's Word as Urgent Instructions to be carried out urgently and recklessly.
The measure of our MEEKNESS is the level of our capacity to follow God's Word with a 'go at it' attitude; recklessly, unassuming, unpretentious, and unafraid.
Who is Meek from the English dictionary?...
meek
/miːk/
adjective
quiet, gentle, and easily imposed on; submissive.
Simply implies one disposed to do anything and everything God says; no questions asked.
A man can't be meek in God's evaluation and remain normal; your propensity to life issues will naturally oppose common sense while you are at it a lot of time.
But, unfortunately, the only criteria for working with God devotedly, will be that one keeps growing the meekness deeper and that will mean DYING DAILY to self-aggrandizement, to being self-opinionated and self-security. Self-security is the disposition to fight for self-worth.
All these values are important to you and more important to God but it is just that, when we push for them we devalue God in the effort. God would rather take that fight up at His level.
If you have never seen an ambassador of a country take up a fight for self-security but would rather not give a personal opinion when such are wronged in the country where they are hosted and leave the fight to the homeland, we should not think less of ourselves as ambassadors of the Kingdom of God.
Moses was described as the meekest in his time but remember he was in a developmental process for forty years after running away from Egypt before God called him.
Joshua had his share of 40 years before God chose him to lead.
And if you checked the only quality they both needed most was capacity for follow-follow.
Jesus said one to be envied is the meek because such will inherit the earth in Mathews 5:5
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
Matthew 5:5 KJV
https://bible.com/bible/1/mat.5.5.KJV
The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.
Psalms 25:9 KJV
https://bible.com/bible/1/psa.25.9.KJV
We are to put self to death daily and live for a higher purpose in it's stead and that will mean living for God's Word and views on the issues of life as they unfold daily without question.
This is Christianity or you are not a Christian. You must be working on this turf or you are not...And He said to all, If any person wills to come after Me, let him deny himself [disown himself, forget, lose sight of himself and his own interests, refuse and give up himself] and take up his cross daily and follow Me [cleave steadfastly to Me, conform wholly to My example in living and, if need be, in dying also].
Luke 9:23 AMPC
https://bible.com/bible/8/luk.9.23.AMPC
That is the most important part of the call out of darkness; to serve God with everything.
