Matthew 5:39 (NKJV) 

“But I tell you not to resist an evil person. But whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also.” 

This sounds and looks like passivity, and I hate passive people because they refuse to take responsibility for the outcome of things. But it’s not passivism; its spirituality. The passive man lays back and leaves everything to fate. He does not strive for anything and believes in the dogma that, “what will be will be.” But that’s not what my Master was teaching. For Jesus, the spiritual man has an option. He can resist and fight back. He has the opportunity, ability, and the channel to fight back, but he chooses not to, to prove his spirituality. 

True spirituality may be considered as weakness, but it’s not weakness. The truly spiritual man decides not to act as an evil person to resist an evil person. He decides to walk in the light and not practice darkness to prove a point to darkness. It does not mean that we welcome evil, but we do not fight an evil person with the weapons of evil. The only way to overcome darkness is by shining the light. I choose to seem weak by not walking in darkness, and I accept to be exploited to remain in the light. I am not passive. I have the right to resist, but I choose not to resist to maintain my identity as a child of light. Am I foolish? To the people of this world, yes. But to the kingdom of heaven, no way! 

“Lord, I accept to look passive or weak or defeated in the eyes of the world; but I refuse to wear the garments of the world to prove my strength. I will not strike back to show I can hit back. I choose rather to be hit again and in humility decide to trust You Lord to be my defender. Lord, defend me from the evil man and strengthen me not to walk in evil, to protect myself from evil. In Jesus name.”