Article December 21, 2015 Issue

The meekness that receives the Christ

Mark Swinney

Where meekness will receive him, still
The dear Christ enters in.

That sentiment, from the Christian Science Hymnal (Phillips Brooks, No. 223), rings as a reminder of two verses right near the beginning of the Bible’s Gospel of John. In speaking of Jesus, these verses say: “He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God” (John 1:11, 12).