If God is with you, who can be against you?

You are not persecuted, nor was I. You are not asked to repeat my experiences because the Holy Spirit, Whom we share, makes this unnecessary. To use my experiences constructively, however, you must still follow my example in how to perceive them. My brothers and yours are constantly engaged in justifying the unjustifiable. My one lesson, which I must teach as I learned it, is that no perception that is out of accord with the judgment of the Holy Spirit can be justified. I undertook to show this was true in an extreme case, merely because it would serve as a good teaching aid to those whose temptation to give in to anger and assault would not be so extreme. I will with God that none of His Sons should suffer. T-6.I.11:1-7

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Jesus reassures us that none of us is expected to “take up his cross and be crucified as he was.” However, Jesus tells us to learn from his most extreme example that anger and assault in the face of persecution is not appropriate for those who believe along with him that God’s will is not that any human being suffers. Persecution and attack are of the world of the ego and have no part of the Kingdom of God.

In Unitarian Universalism some of us covenant together to affirm and promote justice, equity, and compassion in human relations. This means that we treat ourselves and others as the creations of God which we are. We choose the will of God not the things of the ego.

Today it is suggested that we remember that Jesus as he was crucified said, “Father forgive them for they know not what they do.” We can rise above the persecutions and attacks we experience remembering that we are the beloved creation of God.