Bowing the Soul

"Gentleness Means Bowing the Soul -- The Old Testament term for gentleness, anah, describes a mature, ripened shock of grain with its head bent low and bowed down. Just think for a moment on the beauty of this word picture. As wheat grows, the young sprouts rise above the rest. Their heads shoot up the highest because no grain has yet formed. In their immaturity, little fruit, if any, has appeared. But, as time passes and maturity sets in, fruit comes forth -- so much of it that the burdened stalk bends and its head sinks lower and lower -- and the lower the head, the greater the amount of fruit.

Oh, how I want to be this kind of Christian -- a Christian with a lowered head, seasoned and mature, well past the stages of arrogance, pride, and vain emptiness. I yearn for the beauty of prostrating my soul before my Lord and bending in need toward my God!"

Elizabeth George, A Woman's Walk with God