IMPOSSIBLE?

READ;Matthew 5:38-42
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You have heard that it was said, "An eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth." But I tell you not to resist an evil person. -Matthew 5:38-39
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    When Nobel Chairman Gunnar John delivered his presentation speech for Martin Luther King's 1964 Peace Prize, he quoted Jesus: "who soever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also" (Matt. 5:39). As mr. John noted: "It was not because he led a racial minority in their struggle for equality that Martin Luther King achieved fame...[His] name will endure for the way in which he was waged his struggle."
   In 1955, King had led a year-long, peaceful boycott to protest segregation on buses. he paid a high price. His home has bombed, and he was assaulted and arrested. He never retaliated. Eventually he was murdered.
   How contrary dr. King's  peaceful example stands to my fleshly nature! I want justice now. I want retribution. I want others to pay their wrongdoings, specially when it's directed at me. What I do not want is to turn the other cheek and invite them to take another swing.
   Haddon Robinson comments on the lofty standards Jesus set forth in the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 5-7), calling them "goals...not impossible ideals. [Jesus] wants His diciples to strive towards these goals to master a new kind of life."
        Amid the injustices of life,  may we have the courage,  faith,  and  strenght  to  turn  the other cheek.-Tim Gustafson

So send I you to hearts made hard by  hatred,

To eyes made blind because they wil not see,

To spend-though it be blood-to spend and spare not-

So send I you to taste of Calvary. -Clarkson