Be Meek and Lowly of Heart by Elder Ulisses Soares.
Being meek does not mean weakness, but it does mean behaving with goodness and kindness.
Moroni 7:43 And again, behold I say unto you that he cannot have faith and hope, save he shall be ameek, and lowly of heart.
44 If so, his afaith and hope is vain, for none is bacceptable before God, save the cmeek and lowly in heart; and if a man be meek and lowly in heart, and dconfesses by the power of the Holy Ghost that Jesus is the Christ, he must needs have charity; for if he have not charity he is nothing; wherefore he must needs have charity.
Do we know just how much the Lord knows each of us? How well do we know those sisters and friends that have been placed in our lives? We need to develop attributes of Christ so we can know how to serve those people.
President Lorenzo Snow, the fifth prophet of our dispensation, taught, “It is our duty to try to be perfect, … to improve each day, and look upon our course last week and do things better this week; do things better today than we did them yesterday.”11 So the 1st step to becoming meek is to improve day by day. Each day we need to try to be better than the previous as we move forward through this process.
Another important step(2nd) to becoming meek is learning how to control our temper. Because the natural man dwells within each one of us and because we live in a world full of pressure, controlling our temper may become one of the challenges in our lives. By controlling our reactions, being calm and temperate, and avoiding contention, we will begin to qualify for the gift of meekness.
Another step(3rd) to attain meekness is to become humble. The Lord instructed Thomas B. Marsh through the Prophet Joseph Smith, saying, “Be thou humble; and the Lord thy God shall lead thee by the hand, and give thee answer to thy prayers.”15
One of the most beautiful modern-day examples of meekness that I am aware of is that of Brother Moses Mahlangu. His conversion began in 1964, when he received a copy of the Book of Mormon. He was fascinated as he read this book, but it was not until the early ’70s that he saw an LDS Church sign on a building in Johannesburg, South Africa, as he was walking down a street. Brother Mahlangu was intrigued and entered the building to learn more about the Church. He was kindly told that he could not attend the services or be baptized because the country’s laws did not allow it at that time.
Brother Mahlangu accepted that decision with meekness, humility, and without resentment, but he continued to have a strong desire to learn more about the Church. He asked the Church leaders if they could leave one of the meetinghouse windows open during the Sunday meetings so he could sit outside and listen to the services. For several years, Brother Mahlangu’s family and friends attended church regularly “through the window.” One day in 1980 they were told that they could attend church and also be baptized. What a glorious day it was for Brother Mahlangu.
He was not angry, he humbly asked if he could listen through the window.
When things fall apart, it's ok. It is in the process of being rebuilt. We need to be willing to change to obtain Christlike attributes.
Communicate why something is upsetting you.
Feeling anger and frustration is ok, it is what we do with our anger that can be the problem.
Know who you want to be.
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