Turning the other cheek has become a Christian cliché. These beautiful and penetrating words of Jesus are minimized when we humans try to apply them without God. The best we can do to achieve Jesus’ description in our power is repress our anger about the way someone sins against us. This only serves to make us look stupid to the world, creates ulcers, or causes an unplanned, embarrassing, public explosion of anger. Jesus spoke these words and many others like them to invoke the spiritual understanding that it is impossible to live out His directions for our lives without Him. He has no intention of our trying to take His work on in our flesh. It happens all the time in marriages and other relationships where one person who thinks they need to be a certain way to please God centers his or her relationships around k...
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