Morning: Psalm 55; Exodus 40:18-38; I Thessalonians 4:1-12
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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