Saturday, May 9, 2020

Love shows itself to be stronger than hate

Morning: Psalm 55; Exodus 40:18-38; I Thessalonians 4:1-12
Evening: Psalm 1138, 139:1-17; Matthew 5:38-48

Please dig into Jesus’s teaching; it suggests courage, not weakness: “If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also”. Think about this carefully: slapping your right cheek is a contemptuous backhand gesture. Jesus teaches: Do not accept contempt ... offer the other cheek. For all kinds of reasons, this is a strong gesture, not a weak one. Our culture has it wrong when it characterizes ‘turning the other cheek’ as a betrayal. Love does not ‘wimp out’; love stands courageously against injustice but refuses to practice injustice. Love shows itself to be stronger than hate.
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