nice and easy-going; but then again, so are some dogs. Meekness goes much deeper. Meekness is a controlled desire to see the other’s interests advance ahead of one’s own. Think of Abraham’s deference to Lot: that was meekness. According to Numbers 12:3, Moses was the meekest man who ever lived, and his meekness is supremely demonstrated in that chapter by his refusal to defend himself, by his controlled self-commitment to the Lord when his person and privilege were under attack. But it is Jesus himself