Standout Verses – Luke 6:29,30
If someone slaps you on one cheek, offer the other cheek also. If someone demands your coat, offer your shirt also. Give to anyone who asks; and when things are taken away from you, don’t try to get them back.
I remember being told on many occasions that, important though it is to be generous, we must be careful that we do not become a doormat. Why?
I also remember being told that we should take humility only so far and not become weak; that unlimited meekness becomes downtroddenness.
Even if others come to take us for granted does that mean that we cease in our generosity? If others think they are better than us, should we become proud? If others want to thrown their weight around should we become a bully? Surely not. When we pause we see that true meekness requires more strength than the bully possesses, humility more character than the proud could ever proclaim. Generosity would not be a virtue if it were easy, and if were it not costly it would not be valued. True generosity should have no limits, and Christlike generosity should go further still, and not stop at what is asked of us, but offer all it can.
Lord, make me truly generous, humble and meek.
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