Follow the Crucified Messiah

How can we refrain from striking back when we are persecuted? How can we forgive when we have been hurt? We can walk in the way of the cross because Jesus has already done so. Theologian Miroslav Volf explains:

Without entrusting oneself to the God who judges justly, it will hardly be possible to follow the crucified Messiah and refuse to retaliate when abused. The certainty of God's just judgment at the end of history is the presupposition for the renunciation of violence in the middle of it.

Source, originally from Exclusion and Embrace