Numbers 12:3

Meek. From a root meaning “humble,” “submissive,” “lowly.” The same word is rendered variously, as “poor” (Job 24:4), “humble” (Ps. 9:12), and “lowly” (Prov. 3:34; 16:19). The trait of character here described as meekness is essential to leadership in the cause of God. Moses was not naturally meek (Ex. 2:11-14); that trait came to him as the result of 40 years spent in the hard school of the wilderness of Midian. Only a meek man knows how to be submissive to God and to his subordinates and at the same time be a courageous and dynamic leader. There is no place in the work of the Lord for a leader who conceives it to be his privilege to domineer over his fellow workers and dictate to them.