Mat 5:40 And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also.
Mat 5:41 And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.
I didn't touch on this so much yesterday but it does need to be touched on especially in our day and age when we think nothing of suing people. It's true, we sue for anything nowadays. We cannot fathom being sued by someone and NOT trying to get away from having to pay them, or trying to get away with paying them the least amount possible. It's always considered a 'good deal', a 'win', when a person gets sued and they don't have to pay a lot of money. You won! You only have to give them a 100 dollars! It could have been much worse, you might have had to pay them 1000 dollars! Do you see the thrill? The thrill is with getting away without having to pay- it doesn't matter if it's due the person or not if we can get away without having to pay much we will and call it wonderful, call it good.
So here is our Savior and He says- if any man sues us and takes our coat- we give him our cloke too. WHAT?! Time to do a double take, right? If we're sued and someone *wins* and gets our coat we are not to only give him our coat but MORE! We are to give more than is rewarded, how can we possibly get our heads around this? Seriously. Being sued is horrible. I wouldn't want to be sued. You know, Jesus doesn't specify whether or not this is a justifiable suing- that we deserve to be sued, but in truth most people never believe they deserve to be sued, they'd rather work things out without involving the justice system. Not all believe that way, there are some that understand things happen - like an accident on their property- and they know they should be sued. Not everyone fights being sued.
There are a lot of different scenarios but the fact is - Jesus simply said if any man sues us.
Does this mean we are to give more to someone who is already taking us for something? Can you imagine being sued and having to pay 1000 dollars and then giving the person suing you 2000 dollars? Giving more, giving perhaps undeservedly. Giving. This does go hand in hand with turning the other cheek it really does and the same principle applies. Compassion. Revealing Christ not revealing ourselves. Our nature is completely selfish. It really is because so often those who do give and think themselves unselfish are even more selfish than the takers because they lament no one appreciating them enough-- SELFISH. We are selfish…are carnal nature will constantly try to rule us and it does a good job. Turning the other cheek, giving more than we are required to someone taking from us, deserved or not, these things are not common.
Jesus is not common.
Jesus wants HIS love to be revealed, love we embrace and let shine through us, not our love, not love that we give in order to get, not love that is corrupted by selfishness. Jesus' love! JESUS' LOVE!
By His grace me His love be revealed through us now and always!
His LOVE, not our love, HIS LOVE!
In Him forever!
Amen.
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