Friends,
Here in the United States, Christians are increasingly the targets of scorn and ridicule. While we are as yet spared from the suffering and martyrdom that we see occurring in other countries, our beliefs and moral codes are frequently attacked as bigotry. And yet, this is to be expected. Our Lord reminds us of this ...
Psalm 22:6-8 [NKJV]
But I am a worm, and no man;
A reproach of men, and despised by the people.
All those who see Me ridicule Me;
They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
“He trusted in the LORD, let Him rescue Him;
Let Him deliver Him, since He delights in Him!”
When the world looks at you and me, they see Jesus. And when the world sees Jesus in us, they will hate us. Christ told us to expect this. And He gave us His example of how we are to respond:
Psalm 22:9
But You are He who took Me out of the womb;
You made Me trust while on My mother’s breasts.
Jesus responded by recognizing that, while the world looks at Him as a merely a worm, their point-of-view is irrelevant. The only perspective that matters is the One held by the Father. When He counts us as righteous, then all is good... no matter what happens around us.
Be encouraged, Jose
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