Thoughts on the Practice of Meekness

Can we humbly accept our lot and endure quietly the burden we've been asked to bear without fighting, complaining or kicking against the pricks? If we can, I think the burden will lighten and we will be strengthened. Accept and press on with cheerfulness.
📜 Relevant Scriptures
Bible (KJV)
Acts 9:5 – “It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.”
Philippians 2:14–15 – “Do all things without murmurings and disputings: That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God...”
Philippians 4:11–13 – “I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content... I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”
2 Corinthians 12:9–10 – “My grace is sufficient for thee... for when I am weak, then am I strong.”
Book of Mormon
Mosiah 3:19 - "For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father."
Mosiah 23:21–22 – “Nevertheless the Lord seeth fit to chasten his people; yea, he trieth their patience and their faith.”
Mosiah 24:15 – “The Lord did strengthen them... and they did submit cheerfully and with patience to all the will of the Lord.”
Alma 36:3 – “Whosoever shall put their trust in God shall be supported in their trials, and their troubles, and their afflictions.”
Doctrine and Covenants
D&C 121:7–8 – “Thy adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment... God shall give thee knowledge by his Holy Spirit.”
D&C 24:8 – “Be patient in afflictions, for thou shalt have many; but endure them, for, lo, I am with thee.”
D&C 136:31 – “My people must be tried in all things... that they may be prepared to receive the glory that I have for them.”

🎙️ General Conference Teachings
Elder Jeffrey R. Holland – “Broken Things to Mend”
“Some blessings come soon, some come late, and some don’t come until heaven; but for those who embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ, they come.”

President Russell M. Nelson – “Joy and Spiritual Survival”
“The joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.”

Elder Neal A. Maxwell – “Endure It Well”
“Meekness is not weakness. It is a spiritual receptivity to learning from whatever source God chooses to teach us.”

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