93 PERSECUTIONS
93 PERSECUTIONS
Have you been persecuted today, yesterday, last week? You should have been.
When you live for Christ, you will be different from the world and the world will hate you. [And the things you do.]
They will condemn your honesty as being picky. They want you to ‘lighten up’ because it is only a small thing.
They will tell you that it is none of your business when you see them do something or say something wrong; even if it is to you. We are all the same and God loves us all, so, lighten up. Jesus didn’t ‘lighten up’ but did you notice that His words were to the religious?
The non-religious people are dead but don’t care. They are living for themselves right now and let tomorrow bring whatever it will.
The religious are trying to make everyone believe that they are right so they can feel right and believe that they are OK just the way they are. They will keep picking at your life and actions until they get you to agree with them.
This picking goes on and on until you agree with them or they run out of things to say or do to you about your religion, then they will get personal.
With Jesus and His followers, it became so personal that they killed them, even though they were innocent and right.
Are you so right that people are doing things to you that are picky and hurtful? If you’re living the way God wants you to, then this should be happening.
When you obey the traffic laws, people will try to push you, swear at you and gesture at you. When you obey the civil laws, that God told you to obey, they will ridicule and laugh at you. When you obey the safety rules and try to get them to obey them, too, they will ignore you, get angry at you and do spiteful things to make your life worse.
As you stay in contact with a person or group, they will either change you, you will change them or they will put distance between them and you. [If not physically, then mentally]
We can give in and relax our life morals to make our life easier but we would be betraying our calling to our master, Jesus Christ. Openly shaming Him before the public by going back on what He said was the truth.
God’s word, the truth, will be the standard used for acceptance or rejection into God’s ‘new heaven’ at the judgement of the world. The bible says that judgement will start with the people of His kingdom or us Christians. [Jesus’ servants]
The more we love Jesus, the more the people of this present system will hate us because, by our actions of love to God and love for them, we will be showing them that they are wrong and we are right. This condemns them to hell and they don’t want that. They want to be right without accepting God’s way or changing themselves; in other words, they want to be right and keep being wrong.
Their persecution’s of the Christians is to get us to back off and ease up on our ‘right’ way of doing things. Our actions will cause them to be caught in their own lies, shown to be selfish when compared to us and hinder their way of doing things.
We are their worst enemies as long as they don’t want to accept Jesus Christ as their master and friend and their hate will expand to their actions towards us. Expect it.
