The Meek and The Bold

• The Meek [before God] shall inherit the Earth.

• Fortune Favors the Bold.

King David has or had a heart after God. He was meek before God. King Saul was God's anointed. King Saul wanted to kill David. David had the opportunity to kill King Saul but did not kill him. King Saul was God's anointed, and David feared God. That shows meekness to God.

David was bold. Faith is a knowledgeable dependence. How did David grow in faith?

But David said to Saul, "Your servant has been keeping his father's sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock, I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it. (1 Samuel 17:34-35)

David had a relationship with God. He grew in faith, a knowledgeable dependence as a shepherd leaning on God tending his flock. When Goliath mocked God and Israel, David was quick to answer the challenge? He was bold. He was meek and bold.

The wicked flee though no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion. (Proverbs 28:1)

Someone full of God's Spirit may have been more like Saint Nickolas. He had a zeal about him.

A Episcopalian reads this and points out Romans 3:10.

As it is written: "There is no one righteous, not even one;there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God. (Romans 3:10,11)

Meekness towards what or too what? A Utilitarian Episcopalian who was more of a liberal theologian may have brought up Romans 3:10,11 in context of knocking someone's feet out from other them in the course of an argument. Towards what? Someone being meek to The Episcopal Church and Liberal Theology? Was he more of a Christian or a Utilitarian?

for though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again, but the wicked stumble when calamity strikes. (Proverbs 24:16)

"The Pursuit of Happiness" with Will Smith may have displayed a type of righteousness. The main character had a lot of rough things happen. He was a traveling salesmen who invested heavily in a pursuit that was failing. He was not doing well in his business. He had marital issues. His wife left him. He was facing homelessness. There were a lot of trials. He got back up and didn't quit. This may be seen as a Kind of Righteousness. In the same context, someone like Spartan King Leonidas may have characteristics about him that made him more righteous.

All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away. (Isaiah 64:6)

God's Righteousness comes through God's Holy Spirit. Someone is working as a servant of God towards God's plans.

Not one being righteous may have been a rhetorical or even "Power of the Tongue" spiritual device towards getting men to let go of false perceptions and the idea or perspective that there is righteousness outside of God. It may have been true at a time. This is partly, why someone reads The New Testament from an Old Testament Understanding.

Song: Happiness.