"You know that you have been taught, “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.” But I tell you not to try to get even with a person who has done something to you. When someone slaps your right cheek, turn and let that person slap your other cheek. If someone sues you for your shirt, give up your coat as well. If a soldier forces you to carry his pack one kilometre, carry it two kilometres."

(Matthew 5.38-41 CEVUK)

To truly understand these verses and obey, is to know pain, deep pain. It is to get a glimpse of God's pain.

I slapped his right cheek, asked for his shirt, and forced him to carry my pack. And still he let me slap his other cheek, gave me his coat, and carried my pack further. Much further. He loves me still.

"But you must always act like your Father in heaven." (Matthew 5.48 CEVUK)

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