Second, you welcome the word with readiness.  “Receive with meekness,” i.e. a complaint, ready spirit.  It means to be teachable, trainable.  Meekness is power under control.  When you hear the word of God do you try to figure out whether it is true or not?  Whenever you think that the word of God cannot be true until you approve it, you will never receive it.  Samuel welcomed the Word when he said, “Speak Lord, for your servant hears” (Samuel 3: 9-10).  The people on Pentecost “gladly received the word and were baptized” (Acts 2:4).  The Bereans were called noble because “they received the Word with all readiness” (Acts 17:11).  James says that if we welcome the Word, we must receive it with repentance – be clean: and welcome it with readiness – be meek.