“If the world hates you, know that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. However, I have chosen you out of the world, and you don’t belong to the world. This is why the world hates you. Remember what I told you, ‘Servants aren’t greater than their master.’ If the world harassed me, it will harass you too. If it kept my word, it will also keep yours. The world will do all these things to you on account of my name, because it doesn’t know the one who sent me. “If I hadn’t come and spoken to the people of this world, they wouldn’t be sinners. But now they have no excuse for their sin. Whoever hates me also hates the Father. If I hadn’t done works among them that no one else had done, they wouldn’t be sinners. But now they have seen and hated both me and my Father. This fulfills the word written in their Law, They hated me without a reason. “When the Companion comes, whom I will send from the Father—the Spirit of Truth who proceeds from the Father—he will testify about me. You will testify too, because you have been with me from the beginning. (John 15:18-27, CEB)
It seems like followers of Jesus want to make us believe that following God and doing what we are called to will be easy. A walk in the park…
But the Bible never says that. We are never told that life following Jesus will be easy. In fact, we are told over and over again the exact opposite.
The world hated Jesus and mocked him and killed him for what he came here saying and doing, so why do we think it will be a walk in the park. But if it is a walk in the park, that park would be Jurassic Park.
Know that Jesus was hated, and you will be too if you follow and speak as he spoke and love as he loved. However, that is what we are called to do.
Love like Jesus. And know that Jesus is always with you.
Loving People. Loving God.
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