📢 Forum Update - Hello everyone! I've made an improvement to the forum that should make following active discussions much easier. Beginning today, forum topics will display the most recent replies first (while keeping the original topic post at the top), so you no longer have to navigate through multiple pages to find the latest conversation. This change also helps improve the browsing experience in long-running discussions with many pages of replies. If you notice anything that doesn't seem to be working correctly or have any feedback, please let me know. — Richard G. I believe divine discernment is needed to know when to turn the other cheek as opposed to being the devil's doormat! We are told that we wrestle not with flesh and blood, nor are we to cast our Pearl's before swine as even swine can be possessed by the enemy! The whole premise of spiritual warfare and taking of territory from the enemy is also a Godly principle! We are not to yield physical swords, but swords of the spirit! Aquiessining to all manner of violence for violence sake is never taught! Seemingly abbrogating personal rights situationally is what is intended by the command to turn the other cheek! What say you??? TR Turning the other cheek is a multifaceted endeavor! Not haphazard but a deliberate act. A show of love on behalf of our first love as well as an spiritual act of defiance challenging of evil directed towards us personally! Whether we shake dust off our sandals and walk away increasing torments of hell or suffer for Christ as he suffered, as both are valid responses! Point being, there is time to stand our ground, stand in the gap and times to stand against evil! TR At times our math teaches 70 x 7! Then again, we only have 2 cheeks! TR Well, if it is meant to be, God will bring it about. He is so wonderful, that way. ❤️ One of my roommates my freshmen year in college was telling me her parents were Amish and victims of shunning… they weren’t married and her mom was pregnant at the time. So they moved away and started up a farm in Minnesota …. Her parents eventually got saved. She was telling me a funny story about her brother. He also attended the same college and was taking marketing classes. There was this rich southern belle in his class who drove an expensive car and would wear diamond jewelry and fancy clothes. So many fellas were trying to get her attention but her eyes were on her plain dressed down to earth brother. When she asked him what his dream was … he said I plan on taking over the family business … it wasn’t just any farm though … it was a pig farm. :mdrmdr: She caved … love does conquer all … it was a real life Green Acres romance. I’m looking forward to meeting up with her in heaven and catching up with things.
