Suffering and Faith

I have been pondering this scripture for the last few weeks:

1 Nephi 19:9

9 And the world, because of their iniquity, shall judge him to be a thing of naught; wherefore they scourge him, and he suffereth it; and they smite him, and he suffereth it. Yea, they spit upon him, and he suffereth it, because of his loving kindness and his long-suffering towards the children of men.

I a nut shell, if we want to follow Christ we to do as He does. This is the essence of being meek and lowly of heart. We abase ourselves or suffer through things that others say and do. Meek means to stay in Christ-centered control. We do not react from our fallen nature. Meek means, that once in a while we are prompted to unleash righteous indignation. As Jesus did, we throw over some tables or call a spade a spade regarding the wickedness of a group of people.

Most of the time we practice being lovingly kind and long-suffering towards others.

As we do this we show our faith in Jesus Christ. Without doing this our faith is vain.

Moroni 7:42-43

43 And again, behold I say unto you that he cannot have faith and hope, save he shall be meek, and lowly of heart.

44 If so, his faith and hope is vain, for none is acceptable before God, save the meek and lowly in heart;