Turn the other cheek.
If that’s not enough, the soliloquy in Luke 6 forges on to lash the reader with torrents of anti-comfortable messages:
Woe to you who are rich (I’m rich in comparison to the rest of the world); Woe to you who are well fed now (that’s me); Lend to your enemies without expecting to get anything back (you know you won’t); Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful, coupled with this unbelievable news – Because He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.
Are any teachings of Jesus harder to swallow, let along practice?
No way these divine attributes naturally bubble up within me. I need help.
As I ponder, I realize that I’m one most in need of the Lord’s mercy. Possibly, with his mercy, I might find the strength to turn my cheek and respond mercifully toward others.
Week eleven of reading the Bible cover to cover
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I find these teachings of Jesus hard to follow … and that’s just at home with my teenagers …
Hmmm…teenagers might be the ultimate test for these teachings!