Imitate, Don't Enunciate
Google Images It goes against every instinct to allow ourselves to be maligned and misrepresented without some kind of protest. That instinct to defend ourselves is what Peter addresses when he writes: “ For it is commendable if a man bears up under the pain of unjust suffering because he is conscious of God…To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps. He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth. When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly ” (1 Peter 2:19, 21-23). No one was more maligned and misrepresented than Jesus. Yet He said nothing and did nothing to defend Himself. Despite the fact that He had to go to the cross, we would think that He would have liked to have made it clear that He was an innocent man going to an unjust death. But He let people believe whatever they chose to beli...