Day 28             Read: Matthew 5:38—48
         
         If you are willing to have faith in God for
         healing, for salvation, for your daily bread,
         
             Why can’t you have faith in God to pre-
             serve you against the attacks of your enemy?
         
             Why do you have to take matters into your
             own hands here?
         
              “Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves”
         
         If you’re going to live God’s way, then be con-
         sistent.
         
             What’s the point of going to church and
             receiving the sacrament and giving to the
             needy if you shift into a godless, evil
             frame when it comes to those people who
             hate you, abuse you and try to walk all
             over you?
         
             God’s way is to turn the other cheek.
         
                    “Bless them that curse you.
                     Do good to them that hate you.
                     Pray for them that despitefully
                     use you and persecute you.”
         
         God is not sentimental and weak when He commands
         you to turn the other cheek.
         
             This is wisdom.
         
             This is the only way that “works”.
         
                  When you consistently return good for
                  evil, you conquer evil.
         
                  (When you return evil for evil, Evil        
                   conquers you.)
 
                  “Be not overcome of evil, but overcome
                  evil with good.”