To actually forgive our persecutors from our heart can be extremely difficult; however, we are never more Christ-like than when we forgive our persecuters. When we are persecuted, mocked, blacklisted, fired, discriminated against, and teased, we are not called to withstand it, tolerate it, and ignore it; we are also not to bad-mouth them, wish evil upon them, nor to curse them. Not only that, we are to actually find ways, despite our anger and our pain, to BLESS our persecutors and desire their best.