Galatians 5:22-23

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, ²³ Meekness, temperance: against such, there is no law.

Gentleness in the Greek, “prautes”, commonly known as meekness or humility is a virtue of God. It is a fruit of the Holy Spirit that is available in our lives through the Holy Spirit.

Gentleness is not about being a “soft” person whom people can push around, bully and exploit.

The fruit of Gentleness means the following:

1. You are submissive and obedient to the will of God
2. You are meek and humble. Therefore you are not governed by pride in your attitude towards life and towards other people.
3. You have a balanced and modest opinion of yourself. You see yourself through God’s eyes. You do not see yourself as being “better” than somebody else.
4. You are always conscious that God must be glorified in all that you do. You are not boastful, but you realize that every good thing in your life is because of God and not because of your own effort alone.

Titus 3:1-2 

Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work, ² To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.

Paul writes that we are to show “ALL humility to ALL men”. Gentleness/Humility is therefore an important attribute to have in our relationships. It is very easy in our different interactions with people to be very boastful and conceited. Therefore whenever we are not humble, we give room to pride, which will then lead us to have a wrong and ungodly opinion of ourselves and of others.

1 Peter 5:5 says “Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.”

Therefore put on humility as a virtue wherever you go and with whomever, you interact.
Ask the Holy Spirit to teach you and remind you and instil in you the virtue of gentleness/humility.

Philippians 2:8-9

And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. ⁹ Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:

Even Jesus humbled Himself. While He was in human form, He had great power, great authority, and great influence and yet He showed great humility in His relationships and in the way He behaved.
God wants us to show humility even when we have power and authority. God wants us to use our influence and authority to His glory and to submit to His will.

TODAY. Show gentleness; show humility.